It was the toxic 30-year marriage between a ‘manipulative’ horse whisper and her foul-tempered pensioner husband that ended in murder.
Christine Rawle, 70, now faces life in prison after she slaughtered her partner, Ian Rawle, by plunging a knife between his shoulders at the £800,000 home in Devon.
Fatally wounded, 72-year-old Mr Rawle then followed his wife into a field with the knife still stuck in his back ‘imploring her to pull it out’ before he collapsed and died.
It was the murderous end to a tumultuous relationship, plagued by blazing rows, name calling and 비닉스필름구매 petty squabbling – revealed today in shocking detail by secretly recorded video footage.
So unhappy was the relationship, the pair of pensioners were likened to the bickering couple in Roald Dahl’s book, The Twits, who ‘delighted in making each other’s lives as miserable as possible’.
Before she plunged the blade into him, Rawle said her husband had made her life a misery – hitting her with a shovel, damaging her car, taking her keys, putting sugar in the fuel tank and pushing her through a bay window. He even kicked her with steel toecap boots and called her ‘Fat, Fatso, and fat pig’.
Videos giving an insight into the couple’s relationship have now been released – which were recorded by Rawle herself. Pictured is Ian Rawle
Christine Rawle, 70, plunged a knife between the shoulders of her husband when he walked past after they talked about mucking out the horses
Their unhappy 30-year marriage was likened to the bickering couple depicted in the Roald Dahl book The Twits, who ‘delighted in making each other’s lives as miserable as possible’
Mr Rawle was reportedly so rage-filled he would ‘scream, shout, salivate, spit and be red in the face’, and was branded ‘bossy, overpowering, belittling and liked to be in control’.
But his wife was said to have been just as bad, putting Viagra in her husband’s tea, chilli powder in his underpants, wiped her backside with his ties and called him ‘Dick’ and ‘dickhead’.
Rawle now faces a life behind bars after being convicted of murdering her husband
On another occasion she reportedly ran a hosepipe through the sunroof of her husband’s car and filled it up with water.
Now, as she was today convicted of murder, secretly recorded videos – captured by Rawle herself – revealed just how the dysfunctional marriage ended in tragedy.
In one of the clips, shared by the Crown Prosecution Service, the couple are seen furiously squabbling behind closed doors about money, horses and day-to-day living.
A furious Mr Rawle is heard lambasting his wife, raging: ‘Why have I got to go to work? Why? Why don’t you? Why?
‘Why have I got to do it all. Why have I got to do the horses. You’re too lazy to f***ing get anything to eat.’
‘That’s not very pleasant,’ Rawle mutters back, as her husband retorts: ‘It’s true though, 씨알리스정 isn’t it.’
Mr Rawle is seen drinking ‘ginger beer’ as his wife accused him of being an alcoholic in one of the clips