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| Christopher Parry shot wife Caroline dead 'because she left' | Christopher Parry shot wife Caroline dead 'because she left' |
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| A husband shot his wife dead because he could not accept she had left him, Newport Crown court has heard. | A husband shot his wife dead because he could not accept she had left him, Newport Crown court has heard. |
| Caroline Parry was shot in the back at close range near her home in Newport last August. | Caroline Parry was shot in the back at close range near her home in Newport last August. |
| Christopher Parry, 49, from Cwmbran, was described as a "controlling and dominant" individual who could not accept his wife was separating from him after years of unhappiness. | |
| He denies murder but has admitted manslaughter. | |
| Prosecutor Michael Mather-Lees QC said Mr Parry waited for his wife to leave her new lover's home on the morning of the shooting, before removing a semi-automatic shotgun from the boot of his car. | |
| Mr Parry, a driver for the Celtic Manor Resort, then turned the gun on himself, he said, which left him with "substantial head injuries". | |
| 'Surveillance' | |
| Newport Crown Court heard Mr Parry had been a "controlling" during the couple's 27-year marriage. | |
| Mr Mather-Lees said: "Such was the state of the marriage she left and went to live with her mother, telling her husband she would never go back to him. | |
| "But he could not accept the fact that his wife had left him after years of unhappiness. | |
| "She later went to live with a man called Gary Bidmead who she had met before she left the marital home." | |
| In the months before the shooting Mr Parry, who had a shotgun licence and kept three firearms at his Cwmbran home, kept his wife "under surveillance" and phoned her persistently, the jury was told. | |
| Mr Mather-Lees claimed the shooting was a "carefully planned scheme" by a man "not prepared to let go". | |
| "Parry later claimed it was his intention to kill himself in front of his wife - not shoot her," he said. | |
| "If that was the case why did he have a semi-automatic with three cartridges? | |
| "The answer is he was planning to kill her and kill her he did." | |
| The trial continues. |