Northampton murder trial: Pathologist tells jury he believes Kimberley Thompson died by suffocation
The scientist and pathologist who carried out the toxicology report and autopsy after Kimberley Thompsons’s death gave evidence in her murder trial yesterday
By Sarah Ward
The pathologist who conducted Kimberley Thompson’s post-mortem told a jury yesterday he believed the mother had died due to suffocation.
Giving evidence at the start of the fourth week of the murder trial, Dr Stuart Hamilton said on examining Kim Thompson’s body after her death it was his opinion she had died from an external airway obstruction.
Kimberley Thompson’s estranged husband Michael is on trial at Nottingham Crown Court for her murder. The popular Northampton mother of two was found dead at the family home in Pinewood Road, Northampton on August 9 last year.
The crown prosecution’s case is that Thompson, 56, raped and murdered his wife in the early hours before staging a fake suicide and calling the emergency services.