A person murdered his spouse and their daughter after discovering out his spouse was having an affair, a courtroom has been instructed.
Peter Nash, 47, denies murdering 43-year-old Jillu Nash and their autistic daughter Louise, 12, at their house in Great Waldingham, Sudbury, Suffolk, final September.
Prosecutor David Josse KC instructed Ipswich Crown Court that Mrs Nash had “entered into a relationship” with work colleague Mark Leamey by early 2022.
She had deliberate on leaving her husband and “setting up home” with Mr Leamey, based on Mr Josse.
“The defendant and Mrs Nash had a difficult and unhappy marriage,” he stated.
“They married in 2009 and the stresses and strains of that relationship were undoubtedly compounded by Peter Nash losing his job by redundancy in 2020.”
Nash was “largely responsible for the care of their autistic daughter Louise”, who was “non-verbal, only able to say a few words”, Mr Josse stated.
Mr Josse stated Mrs Nash had recorded some conversations that she had together with her husband – one in August had him calling her “a schemer who caused chaos to gain attention”.
“When he suggested she had been cheating on him for some four months, she corrected him and told him it was eight months,” stated Mr Josse.
Mrs Nash and Mr Leamey have been seen collectively on 7 September, the prosecutor stated.
It is alleged that Nash murdered his spouse and daughter both late that day or early the next day, killing Mrs Nash by compressing her neck, and killing Louise with a single stab to the stomach.
A scent of fuel
Police went to the house on 8 September after Mrs Nash failed to show up for work and Louise did not arrive in school.
Mr Josse stated that police on the home might scent fuel and known as the fireplace service.
Mrs Nash was present in the lounge whereas Louise was discovered on a mattress lined with a sheet.
‘Disarmed by police with a Taser’
Nash was subsequent to his daughter with “a number of superficial… cumulatively serious stab wounds” and “still in possession of a knife”, Mr Josse stated, including that the defendant “had to be disarmed by police with a Taser”.
He later instructed a psychiatric staff that he had been “angry with his wife” and had “confronted her with a picture of her with another man”.
The trial, due to last as long as six weeks, continues.
Source: information.sky.com”