Overview

• Pugh will be sentenced on September 5, 2025, and remains in custody following the guilty verdict.
• Medical reports confirmed Mr Pugh died from neck compression, fractures to his neck structure, and other facial injuries sustained during the attack.
• She claimed to find him hanging and delayed reporting the incident, calling her father and making a misleading 999 call 20 minutes after the altercation.
• Prosecutors told jurors Pugh exploited her estranged husband’s known history of self-harm to construct a suicide narrative.
• Evidence detailed a ‘volatile, turbulent and abusive’ relationship marked by mutual violence and substance misuse.