A person has been cleared of waging a marketing campaign of home abuse and sexual violence on his wife, who went on to take her personal life.
Christopher Trybus, 43, was charged with manslaughter, in addition to with two counts of rape and coercive and controlling behaviour, however was discovered not responsible after a seven-week trial at Winchester crown courtroom.
The jury acquitted Trybus on all costs after deliberating for 40 hours and eight minutes.
Tarryn Baird, 34, was discovered lifeless at her house in Swindon, Wiltshire, on 28 November 2017. The couple, who met at college, had moved to the UK from their native South Africa in 2007 and married two years later.
The rapes have been alleged to have taken place in 2016, and the coercive management costs included allegations that Trybus, a software program advisor and developer, tracked and monitored his wife. He was additionally accused of limiting her entry to funds, isolating her from her household, and threatening to disclose non-public details about her to them.
Tom Little KC, prosecuting, stated through the trial: “It was the control and physical violence meted out to her, including sexual violence and the threat of and fear of physical and sexual violence on his part towards her,” that precipitated Baird to take her personal life.”
Baird made greater than 100 visits to her GP, the courtroom heard, the place she reported she had been raped, and displayed bruising, which she stated had been brought on by beatings.
She made makes an attempt to go away her husband and transfer to a girls’s refuge, the courtroom heard, however stated she feared it was extra harmful to go away than it was to remain.
Baird left a notice to her household that learn: “I am so sorry but I just couldn’t take it any more. I know you may not understand this but I just can’t explain the dark cloud that is over me.
“Please don’t let this break you, but know I am now free. Nothing any of you could have done could have changed this, please just know that. I love you and please forgive me.”
Trybus’s barrister, Katy Thorne, informed the courtroom that Baird’s accidents have been self-inflicted and stated Trybus “loved her and cherished her deeply” and “that without anyone’s knowledge, Tarryn Baird was making demonstrably false allegations to health professionals”.
“There are injuries but the defence case is that on a number of occasions Tarryn Baird made allegations of violence which were demonstrably false, for example by reporting injuries to health professionals when Christopher Trybus was not even in the country,” she informed the courtroom.
Baird, who lived with PTSD from witnessing violent incidents in South Africa, took a number of prescription drug overdoses within the months main as much as her loss of life.
Thorne recommended Baird had been “desperately seeking help” for her psychological well being points, “and feeling she wasn’t receiving it and she may have become addicted to the attention that her allegations brought”.
In her closing speech, Thorne stated Trybus had been “unfairly accused” and requested “how he was supposed to answer the allegations of a ghost from 10 years ago”.
She stated the prosecution’s case was “based on an agenda that when women allege violence and domestic abuse, they must be telling the truth”.
