Clydebank pensioner on trial accused of killing wife

A doctor told a trial of a man accused of killing his wife that it's one of the worse cases she has dealt with in 32 years.

59 year-old Doctor Mary Eason also believed 67 year-old Maureen Crilley was going to die at her home in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire in September 2017.

Dr Eason found the pensioner lying on her back naked in her living room with one sock on her foot.

She couldn't examine Mrs Crilley properly as she was in so much pain.

The woman's husband 77 year-old Neil Crilley went on trial at the High Court in Glasgow charged with culpable homicide.

The allegation spans between July 1 and September 2 2017.

Prosecutors claim Crilley knew his wife was “immobilised” suffering from injury and infection.

Mrs Crilley is said to have been in need of “medical assistance” and unable to help herself.

The charge then states that Crilley acted “culpably and recklessly” and with “utter disregard” by leaving his wife on the floor.

He is said not to have got “appropriate, timely and adequate” medical help causing “unnecessary suffering”.

The indictment states Mrs Crilley was so severely injured and infected that she died in hospital on September 4 2017.

Crilley, of Whitecrook, West Dunbartonshire, denies the charge.

The court heard Dr Eason attended to the call to go to Crilleys' house while working as an out of hours GP.

She was allowed in by the accused who was described as “well dressed and polite.”

Dr Easton told jurors there was a clear smell of urine when she entered the property.

She found Mrs Crilley lying on the living room floor surrounded by nappies.

Miss Easton said: “She was naked with one sock on her right foot.

“Her head was held up by pillows and looked very ill.

“I couldn't make out what she was saying as her mouth was dry.

“This was one of the worst cases I have seen in my career.

“My first thought was I need to get her to a hospital immediately.”

The doctor told jurors that it was difficult to examine Mrs Crilley due to her pain.

She said: “Anytime I touched her, it was obvious that she recoiled and moaned.”

Mrs Crilley was asked to go to hospital for treatment but she refused.

Miss Easton said: “I thought she might die. I couldn't administer pain killers as I didn't know how bad she was.”

Crilly told Miss Easton that his wife had fallen but didn't give a timescale of how long she was lying in the living room.

Miss Eason believed that one of Miss Crilly's legs were broken and called an ambulance.

Crilley also denies separate accusations of being threatening and abusive towards his wife and a woman called Helen Jamieson

The trial, before judge Lord Burns, continues.