women and girls from wales
2018, Merthyr Tydfil
Michelle Denise Rosser, 38, is murdered by her partner. He told police her facial injuries (which included a fractured skull, a brain bleed, multiple bruises and grazes) were from sex they'd had the night before. She'd called police 11 times in 2 years to report domestic abuse.
Murder, life, min term 18 years
2018, Mumbles
Lesley had a son and a daughter and was looking forward to the birth of a sixth grandchild. Lesley was killed by her husband Derek. On arrest and in court he claimed that they had had an "S&M relationship", that she may have killed herself during sex, that he had strangled her during sex in the past, that he had a temper, that he had strangled his wife in temper before, maybe a couple of times, he had also held her by the throat in the pub.
'Police did not treat her death as suspicious until, one week before she was due to be cremated, Potter told a colleague "I had to strangle her".'
Murder, life, min term 17 years