Woman who claimed husband took his own life jailed for his murder

Woman who claimed husband took his own life jailed for his murder

Amy Pugh, 34, pretended to be a "concerned" wife who had found her husband, Kyle Pugh, hanging outside the back of the family home.

Amy Pugh jailed for murder of estranged husband in Newport attack

Amy Pugh is sentenced after trying to pass off Kyle Pugh's injuries as self-inflicted.

Woman claimed husband killed himself but she'd murdered him

Amy Pugh is starting a jail sentence

Woman who claimed husband took own life jailed for at least 13 years for murder

Amy Pugh, 34, told a 999 call handler her husband Kyle Pugh had taken his own life, but had inflicted the injuries on him herself during a fight.

'It is unusual to have a female convicted of domestic murder' - Police react to life sentence for killer Amy Pugh

The detective who led the "long and complex" investigation into the murder of a man by his wife in Newport has welcomed her life sentence.

Amy Pugh, 34, jailed for only 14 years for murdering estranged husband, 29.

Our thanks to Steve for this. The end of the article takes up the remainder of this blog piece: “The judge said on Friday the killer had “decided to concoct a lie and stage a scene”. She said that if Pugh had called the emergency services sooner, Mr Pugh might have lived. But instead, the judge said, she had been “composed enough to tell persuasive and cohesive lies about what had happened”. She said those lies had been “cynical and cruel” and t…