A woman has beaten her husband to death in the UK during an argument over a pack of cigarettes in their home.
Sandra Bruce(pictured) stamped and jumped on her husband Norman during the brutal attack at their home on the Isle of Skye in February last year, Daily Mail reports.
The British tabloid said the 61-year-old who was said to have smirked when she was shown pictures of her 64-year-old partner’s dead body, told the High Court in Glasgow that she could not remember the assault.
But her murder trial heard that she complained of her husband – a former paramedic – hiding a packet of cigarettes on the night he was killed.
The couple had earlier tried to give up smoking.
The murder took place at the couple’s home on the Breakish area of Skye, where the couple moved to in the 1990s after Mr Bruce left his former wife.
Prosecutors told the court that Mr Bruce was scratched before being kicked, stamped and jumped on.
His wife also inflicted ‘blunt force injuries’ to his head and body, the jury was told.
Paramedic Andrew Alexander told the trial how he attended the house on February 9 last year, finding Ms Bruce ‘agitated’ and ‘slightly unsteady on her feet’.
Mr Alexander said: ‘She stated that Norman was dead and that there was no need for the defibrillator.
‘She took hold of me – she did not let go for a period of time.’
Mr Alexander and a colleague found Mr Bruce’s body in the house, but it was clear he had already died.
The medic recalled Ms Bruce talking on the phone after the murder.
He told the jury: ‘She stated “the b****** put a packet of cigarettes under my pillow” or “the b****** hid a packet of cigarettes under my pillow”.’
She was also questioned about the row over cigarettes, but again said she could not recall it.
However, she told the jury both her and her husband had previously tried to give up smoking.
The former secretary later told the jury that she did not accept murdering her husband and that she ‘never meant to harm him’.
Source: Daily Mail
