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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Stephanie Wareham

Woman ‘attacked husband then told 999 operator he had taken his own life’

Kyle Pugh (West Mercia Police/PA) - (PA Media)

A woman “overpowered” her husband and attacked him, and then waited 20 minutes to call 999, telling the operator he had taken his own life, a court has heard.

Amy Pugh, 34, played the part of a “concerned” wife who had discovered her husband, Kyle Pugh, outside the back of the family home in Newport, Shropshire, when she made a “desperate” 999 call on the evening of March 22 2022.

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