A husband on trial for killing his wife through neglect said he felt ashamed for not knowing the pain she was in.
Neil Crilley, 77, claimed he only realised his wife Maureen’s agony when doctors gave evidence at his trial.
He also told jurors he visits her grave every day.
Maureen, 67, was found on her living room floor with a broken leg in September 2017.
She died from spinal meningitis after one of the sores on her back got heavily infected.
Crilley denies the culpable homicide of his wife at their home in Clydebank, Dunbartonshire.
Crilley told jurors at the High Court in Glasgow his wife would hide illnesses from him.
He said: “She wouldn’t go to the hospital for anything. When there was an appointment she would hide it and didn’t say. I am totally ashamed.”
“Every day I go to her grave. I wear her socks and look at a picture of her everyday and have a chat to her, like I do at the grave.”
Judge Lord Burns is expected to send the jury out tomorrow.
