'Horse whisperer's six-word sentence moment she's arrested for husband's murder
This is the moment a horse trainer arrested for her husband's murder tearfully tells cops: "he was such a cruel b*****d.'
Christine Rawle plunged a knife 10cm into her husband's back then called a friend to "sort her dogs out" before removing the blade, prosecutors told the jury. The 70-year-old asked Ian Rawle, 72, to help with the horses before knifing him between the shoulder blades as he walked past. She picked up the knife to cut some cords to tie up the gates as her husband asked before attacking him.
The ongoing trial at Exeter Crown Court had previously likened the couple to Roald Dahl's The Twits due to their constant bickering - with police previously attending their house. In police body-worn footage, released by Devon and Cornwall Police after being shown to the jury, Rawle is taken in custody and fights back tears as she tells cops: "How can someone be so cruel? He is narcissistic. Oh please god, he is such a cruel b*****d..
"How could you love someone and they are so calculatingly nasty to you. It's been boiling... Even my dog and my horses. He will come and get me, he will kill me."
This is the moment a horse trainer arrested for her husband's murder tearfully tells cops: "he was such a cruel bastard.' (Devon and Cornwall Police / SWNS)When told she was being arrested for his murder, Rawle was heard on camera saying: "Oh god, why couldn't have someone stopped him keep doing this to me. I've tried that many times - I tried the other day to phone the police and it takes forever for them to pick up. You can't do a 999 call and say he's just shouting at me can you?"
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The footage was released after being shown to the jury during the ongoing trial. Earlier, Exeter Crown Court earlier heard from a neighbour that Rawle would put Viagra in his tea, chilli powder in his underpants and would wipe her backside with his ties.
The jury also heard that she told her daughter on the phone on August 21, 2022 that she "stabbed him." Her daughter then put the phone down, and the court heard that she called Thames Valley Police and the ambulance service. But instead of calling for help, Christina made a 28-second call to one of her best friends, in which she asked her to "sort her dogs out.".
After knifing her husband of 27 years, Rawle is said to have walked off from the barn on their land to the door of their isolated bungalow near Braunton in north Devon. Prosecutor Sean Brunton KC told the jury she ran away shouting 'help me, help me' as her husband followed her asking her to remove the knife.
Christine Rawle is filmed on police body-cam moments after being arrested for the suspected murder of her husband Ian Rawle (Devon and Cornwall Police / SWNS)He said: "Her husband tells her to tie the gates back, she says she can't find the scissors, so he tells her to use the knife. He then says something about the children and when he walks past her with the wheelbarrow, she stabs him in the back. He puts the wheelbarrow down.
"He asks her - not unreasonably you might think - to take the knife out of his back. She runs away, shouting 'help me, help me' and he walks after her, no doubt very angry or distressed, with the knife still in his back.
"At some point, he collapses in the garden, she doesn't take the knife out straight away. She puts the dogs away, calls her friend, then takes the knife out and puts it under the stable door."
Mr Brunton told the court that Rawle's adult daughter had heard the couple arguing during a 10-minute phone call leading up to the incident. He said that her daughter called the police and the ambulance service, who tried to call Rawle but she initially didn't answer their calls.
He added: "At 14.40, the ambulance service calls her back. But Christine Rawle calls her friend to sort her dogs out rather than call for help for her husband."
"While her husband was dying and while the ambulance operator was trying to get her to spring into action, she was heard saying 'd*ck, d*ck, I've killed him the b*astard'. She stabbed her husband between the shoulder blades, it punctured between the ribs and he bled into his chest cavity, which caused cardiac arrest. The knife was 10cm into his back which caused a collapsed lung."
When police arrived at the scene, she told officers: "I took his life because he was horrible to me. He terrorised. It was continuous. I wanted out."
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She also told officers: "He wasn't sexually capable, he had a prostate issue, he used to blame me and tell me I'm not attractive. He didn't want children, he made me get sterilised."
Mr Brunton added: "We say these claims were this defendant trying to justify to the police - and maybe to herself - what she had done. We also say she was 42 when they got together, she already had three children from a previous relationship. Did she sound like she wanted to have children with him? Could he have made her get sterilised?"
Mr Brunton said when she was taken to the police station and questioned for more than six hours, she told police she 'was talking rubbish'. And she claimed she 'couldn't remember' if she stabbed her husband or threw the knife. When asked by police if she stabbed her husband, she said: "I suppose I must have done, but I can't remember.
"He came to me and asked me to 'take the knife out of my back', I said no at first. I thought I'd cut his shirt, I thought I'd thrown the knife, I didn't realise [I'd stabbed him]. He was my world."
Mr Brunton said: "We say she changed her story because she knew it didn't look good."
He also told the court the couple - who he previously likened to Roald Dahl's The Twits due to their constant bickering - had previously called police to the house. He said in 1993, Rawle had got into trouble with the police over nuisance phone calls made to one of her husband's ex-partners.
A few years later, police were called to the house again when she stabbed her husband in the chest, Mr Brunton said. He also told jurors they would hear evidence from a neighbour who would tell how Rawle would treat her husband. Rawle denies murder. The case continues.
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