Woman to be sentenced for murdering husband in Newport home
A woman is facing life imprisonment when she appears before a crown court judge today to be sentenced for murdering her husband.
Amy Pugh, aged 34 and of Stafford Road in Wolverhampton, was found guilty in March this year of killing her estranged husband, 29-year-old Kyle Pugh, in the kitchen of her Newport home in March 2022.
During the six-week trial the court heard how the estranged couple had an argument just after 8.30pm on March 22, 2022 at her then home in Aston Drive, Newport.
The argument led to an altercation between the two in which Pugh injured her husband, causing him to become unresponsive.
Pugh took 20 minutes to call emergency services. The court was told how during this time she made several phone calls to her father before calling 999.
When emergency services arrived at the scene at around 9.15pm Pugh was carrying out CPR on an unresponsive Kyle.
He was then taken to the Princess Royal Hospital where he sadly died the following day.
A murder investigation was launched by police after Kyle’s family raised concerns around the circumstances of his death.
Pugh had claimed she had found her husband hanging by his belt from the back door, and blamed his death on his mental health struggles.
But a jury at Stafford Crown Court dismissed her version of events, finding Pugh guilty of murder.
She is set to be sentenced at Stafford Crown Court by Judge Kristina Montgomery today (Friday).
