Murder accused threatened wife, court hears
A witness in the trial of a Nigerian man who denies murdering his wife with a lump hammer has told the jury the accused was following his wife around in the flat and calling her names the night before she died.
Sharon Facey was giving evidence at the Central Criminal Court in the trial of Goodwill Uduchuckwu (aged 32) with a previous address at Royal Canal View, Royal Canal Bank, Phibsboro.
He is accused of the murder of Natasha Gray (aged 25) at the same address on Tuesday, February 18, 2003.
The body of the Jamaican born mother of two was found in a baby’s cot.
Ms Facey told Ms Pauline Walley SC, prosecuting, that she was in the flat on the Monday afternoon and evening. She said the accused was following Ms Gray.
“If she went to the toilet he would go,” she said.
She said he was saying the deceased was a “nasty girl” and had given him a disease. She also said Mr Udechuckwu told Ms Gray that he had found the password for her computer.
“He was telling her: ‘Dirty girl, look at you, you sleep with men, you’re not a good mother’.”
“He also told her: ‘If you leave me I’ll kill you’ … things like that. ‘You are my wife’.”
The trial continues this afternoon before Mr Justice Kevin O’Higgins and a jury of five men and seven women.
