Harrowing moment horse trainer, 70, tells cops ‘he’ll come and get me, he’ll kill me’ after ‘knifing husband in back’
THIS is the chilling footage showing a horse trainer, 70, telling cops “he’ll kill me” after allegedly ‘stabbing her husband in the back’.
Christine Rawle is on trial for the murder of her husband of 27 years Ian, 72, after a row at their bungalow in north Devon.
A court heard today how Rawle had secretly recorded arguments with her husband in which she would threaten to call the police.
She calls him a narcissist and a liar before telling him to: “Shut up and leave me alone.”
Ian can be heard saying he goes to work while “you are getting fat”.
He added: “I go to work to support you. You don’t do your bit at all. Have I got to put up with all this sh*t? Do I have to put up with all this sh*t every day?
“You are a sick woman. You just want to bankrupt everybody.”
Rawle tells her husband he is a “useless idiot, ignorant” and there is “no way forward”.
The jury also heard from witness Rebecca Lewis who was in a relationship with Rawle’s youngest son Tom.
Mrs Lewis told Exeter Crown Court about the time she first met Rawle.
“We were into their kitchen and Christine had a knife to the neck. That was in front of me,” she told the jury.
She added: “He never retaliated. He was very calm. He never retaliated. He just kept his cool. Sometimes I was like ‘how’.”
Mrs Lewis said the defendant “did not like him (Ian)”.
“They did not get along. She would say she did not like him,” she said.
“She would put Viagra pills in his cup of tea before work and think it was funny.
“If he was going away she would pack his case and put chilli powder in his pants. He never dried himself properly out of the shower and he would be itching when he arrived at work.
“She would wipe herself, her backside, with his ties, he would also pack them.”
Mrs Lewis told the court Rawle also filled Ian’s van with water through the sunroof and flooded it.
“She just said he was a d**k. We just laughed about it. She was constantly playing tricks on him always, it never changed.”
Mrs Lewis’ relationship with Tom ended after 18 months when she became pregnant.
Under cross examination Mrs Lewis, a former senior carer, said: “I did not like Christine Rawle. I did but now I don’t.”
She told the jury how Rawle had changed when she became pregnant and wanted her to have an abortion.
The witness told the court: “She threatened to harm the child if I had the child. She did not want Tom and me to have the child and intimidated me and my parents into having a termination.”
Mrs Lewis denied lying about her statement and told the court she had “no reason to lie”.
Rawle is on trial accused of murdering Ian by allegedly stabbing him in the back “in a fit of temper” while he pushed a wheelbarrow in their garden.
The court heard that the defendant made a 28 second call to a friend “to sort her dogs out” before removing the knife and phoning an ambulance.
The mother of three called her daughter in Milton Keynes and told her “I’ve stabbed him”, the jury heard.
When police arrived at their home in August 2022, Rawle said: “I took his life because he was horrible to me. He terrorised me. I wanted out.”
Hours before the attack, the court heard how Rawle sent messages to her daughter in which called her husband of 27 years a ‘d***’, a ‘b*****d’ and said: “I hope the c*** dies.”
The jury was told Ian Rawle had previously threatened to shoot a neighbour’s dog.
Neighbour Rebecca Squire, said she “always nervous” of digger driver Ian.
She told the court: “He once cut the wire to our security light. He banged on our door at 3am to say it wasn’t ‘effing Blackpool illuminations.”
Her husband Jonathan Squire added: “They used to have chickens. He said ‘if they keep upsetting the chickens I will shoot the dog’.”
Rawle denies murdering her husband and her trial continues next week.