A support worker stabbed his wife to death at their own home before later taking his own life, an inquest has heard. Kerry Bradford, 57, was stabbed to death by husband Nicholas Bradford in a "vicious attack" on April 25 last year at their home in Monnow Way in Bettws, Newport, before Mr Bradford took his own life by falling from a multi-storey car park.
An inquest at Gwent Coroner's Court in Newport on Tuesday, May 31, heard that at 6.15pm on Sunday, April 25, 2021, police were called to an address in Monnow Way in Bettws where they found store assistant Mrs Bradford on her living room sofa with “multiple stab wounds to the neck”. Two knives, with one covered blood, were found in the kitchen and the pair's mobile phones were found in their hot tub.
Earlier the same day officers had been called to a multi-storey car park three miles away following reports that a man had fallen. The man, who was pronounced dead at the scene, was later identified as 57-year-old support worker Nicholas Bradford.
