Hannegret Donnelly, 54, has been jailed for life after killing her husband
A German midwife who has been jailed for murdering her husband said in police interviews how she would chase him around the house with a rolling pin.
Hannegret Donnelly, 54, killed her husband Christopher, 55, in their Buckinghamshire home as he struggled with bronchial pneumonia.
Investigators found 78 injuries on Christopher's body after his death including a cauliflower ear, wounds all over his head, internal injuries including fractures to his shoulder bone, spine, and neck, fractures to the cartilage in his voice box and other traumatic injuries.
These were all caused by being hit with a blunt object or a fist according to police and his blood was found all over the house.
In police interviews, Donnelly, a mother-of-four, admitted beating her husband with a rolling pin and a hairbrush, punching him in the face and pushing him down the stairs.
She said: 'We had a chase around the table in a more light-hearted sort of way.
'If I hit you with a rolling pin, maybe you come out of your trance... but then it did get... yeah, I did hit him a bit harder sometimes.
A rolling pin from Donnelly's house was retrieved by police after the German midwife confirmed beating her husband with the utensil
Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court heard how Donnelly controlled her husband and left him with 78 injuries
'But as I saw, he never... it was not as if he fell over and lost consciousness, it wasn't anything like that.
In another clip, Donnelly said: 'I punched him on his nose severely, I was so angry with him, but he didn't have such a big cut, just a small cut.'
She also spoke about an incident when she shoved her husband down the stairs.
'I pushed him in the back and he walks a bit faster, then he tripped and fell against a crate.
'The crate got broken and then he cut himself on the head quite badly.'
Donnelly said he was never violent towards her but she would use violence to rouse him from a trance-like state and 'reset something in him'.
The jury unanimously convicted Donnelly after a 13-day trial.
Senior investigating officer Detective Chief Inspector Felicity Parker of Thames Valley Police said: 'He was coercively controlled by his wife on a daily basis.
'She told him what was acceptable and punished him when he did something that disagreed with her view; he suffered extreme injuries as a result of this systematic abuse.
'This case highlights the fact that domestic abuse affects men and women and the consequences can be catastrophic.
Judge Amanda Yip, QC, sentencing her today, said: 'What is clear is the violence you inflicted was one-sided.
'The blood found in your home all matched his. No one but you knows what caused you to repeatedly assault you husband.
'It does not appear that your relationship was always a troubled one. You had been married for 23 years at the time of his death.
'You have deprived your four children of their father and sadly your separation because of your arrest can only add to their trauma.
In a police interview, Donnelly said her husband was never violent with her and she beat him to 'reset something in him'
Donnelly said in police interviews she beat her husband but he never lost consciousness. She also admitted pushing him down the stairs and punching him in the face
'It is clear Christopher experienced physical violence before death- it is inconceivable that he did not suffer mentally.'
Just days before he died, the killer wrote in her diary: 'I did not allow him to go to the toilet.'
She also did not allow her children to use mobile phones and the landline had been disconnected.
The pair met in 1992 when Mr Donnelly used to play the clarinet and saxophone having studied at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
A qualified biochemist, he fell into ill health and his wife began to beat him with household objects.
In the two years leading to his death, their children aged between 12-21 became isolated and were home schooled by their mother.
Eloise Marshall, QC, prosecuting, told Kingston Crown Court: 'In this case the victim was particularly vulnerable due to his disability.
'We know that the defendant from her own admissions she continued to assault him.
'She has said that these repeated injuries were committed with a rolling-pin. It is unclear and the Crown are unable to say whether that was the only instrument.
'There would have been mental and physical suffering inflicted on the victim until death.
Prosecuting Eloise Marshall QC said: 'There would have been mental and physical suffering inflicted on the victim until death'
'Their household was a complex and strange one and even though they seemed a conventional family over the years they withdrew from life outside.'
Tim Malone, QC, defending, said: 'There were attempts to help him. There is then the indication when the police arrive that they have carried out CPR for about 30 minutes.
'There was also the immediate comment made by Mrs Donnelly that the death was unexpected, that they had hoped he would have come out and that they spent the evening grieving before going round to the neighbours to make the phone call.'
Donnelly of Berryfields, Buckinghamshire, denied murder and grievous bodily harm between 30 March 2016 to March 30, 2018.
She was convicted of murder and jailed for a minimum period of 16 years.
The brother of Mr Donnelly, Peter, cited his beliefs as a Roman Catholic, and said he forgive his younger brother's killer.
He said after the verdict: 'As far as Hannegret Donnelly's actions have harmed me I must be in a position to forgive.'
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Hannegret Donnelly, 54, has been jailed for life after killing her husband
A German midwife who has been jailed for murdering her husband said in police interviews how she would chase him around the house with a rolling pin.
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