Northampton murder trial: Kim Thompson's colleague tells jury accused husband strangled her
A colleague and friends tell the ongoing murder trial about the alleged abuse Kim Thompson suffered at the hands of her husband Michael before her death
By Sarah Ward
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A colleague of Kim Thompson told her murder trial her husband would strangle her and she saw bruises on her work friend.
Elizabeth Muddiman, who worked with Kim at the money claims court at St Katharines building in Northampton said her friend and colleague was ‘scared’ to leave Thompson and confided in her about the problems she was having in her ‘difficult marriage’.
Giving evidence on the witness stand yesterday (Monday, June 1), while Kim’s husband Michael sat in the dock, Mrs Mudiman, said she saw bruises on Kim’s neck, chest and arms and Kim had said her husband would strangle her.
Relaying what Kim had told her she said:
“He was strangling her and she would be really concerned for her breath and the fact that he might go further.”
She said:
“Kim told me lots of times of arguments or what I saw was one way criticism or bullying.”
She told the jury that one time she had secretly overheard the couple when Kim had forgotten to put the phone down after they had been talking on a call.
She said: “I started hearing a disturbance.”
Prosecutor Miranda Moore KC asked:
“What did you hear Mr Thompson saying?
Mrs Muddiman responded:
“Disgusting words. He called her a pathetic c**t, that she was a dirty whore, that she was a narcissist. The barrage went on and on.”
Ms Moore asked:
“Could you hear Kim at all?”
Mrs Muddiman said:
“I could hear her apologise.”