Murder accused threatened to tamper with estranged wife’s car brakes, court hears
More of an insight into the life of Kimberley Thompson has been revealed to the jury by her friends and colleagues
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By Sarah Ward
Michael Thompson threatened to cut the brakes of his wife’s car, a jury was told today.
In the third week of the ongoing murder trial, the jury which has been sitting at Nottingham Crown Court, heard evidence that Thompson, 56, who is accused of raping and murdering his wife Kimberley Thompson, 43, in August last year, had threatened in the months before her death to cut her brakes.
Giving evidence this morning (June 3) friend Amy Spencer, who worked with Kim at the Civil National Business Centre in Northampton, said while they were talking in the work kitchen, Kim had told her that Thompson had made a threat to her.
She said:
“He said he would cut her brake lines and by the time she realised it would be too late.”
She said her colleague confided in her and told her that Thompson was physically abusive and controlling. She had also seen bruises on her friend over the years they had worked together.
She told the court:
“The impression I got from her was wherever possible he would make her life more difficult. In whatever small ways he could.”