Woman denies slashing clothes

0 Comments | South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales), June 27, 2008

Byline: Liz Keen

A WOMAN is accused of wrecking her husband's home, slashing his clothes and causing thousands of pounds worth of damage while he was away.

When floor-layer William Green returned the first thing he saw was his hallway covered in white feathers from his destroyed bedding, Cardiff Crown Court heard yesterday.

He then found:

His curtains, furniture and clothes had been cut; bleach and turpentine had been poured over his TV and other goods.

Police charged Angela Edwards, his wife of 14 years, who lives nearby with their children at Cam rose Road, Ely. She denies two counts of burglary and two of causing criminal damage.

Mr Green claimed to have seen her at his home when he was woken to the sound of a window smashing last November. A month later, he said he returned from Christmas shopping to hear a brick coming through his kitchen window.

On December 24, he told a jury, she came round and was calling him "mean" and just days later he returned from his Christmas and Boxing Day break with friends to find his home ruined.

He also alleged Edwards made an abusive phone call to him on January 7 and a week later he got home to find another window smashed, muddy footprints on his floor and an abusive word etched on a wall.

The couple were said to have had a turbulent relationship, separating first in 1998, four years after they married. But there were reconciliations and at one stage they lived as a family.

She denied being at his house at Knights well Close on any of the occasions alleged, telling jurors that on one of the days she had been on a film set in Bridgend with a friend.

"I stayed the night with her and we were picked up next morning in a minibus owned by the film company," she said.

The jury was sent home for the night after failing to reach a verdict yesterday.

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liz.keen@mediawales.co.uk