A pensioner charged with killing his wife asked a medic who treated her if he would go to jail, a court heard yesterday.
Neil Crilley was said to have made the comment in an ambulance as Maureen Crilley, 67, was being taken to hospital in September 2017.
Jurors also heard a 999 call where the 77-year-old claimed Maureen fell weeks ago but that she “begged” him not to get help.
The evidence was heard at the High Court in Glasgow. Crilley denies the culpable homicide of his wife at their home in Whitecrook, Dunbartonshire.
Among the prosecution claims are that he knew she was “immobilised”, suffering from injury and infection.
He is said not to have got “appropriate, timely and adequate” medical help causing “unnecessary suffering” to his wife of 38 years.
The trial heard how Crilley made a 999 call on September 2, 2017.
He told the operator: “My wife fell eight or nine weeks ago in the living room and this can’t go on.
“She begged me not to phone but she is in terrible need. Her back is sore as she has been lying on the floor for eight or nine weeks.”
Maureen was taken to Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in an ambulance while her husband went in another.
It was there he chatted to technician Leanne Duffy. The witness recalled: “He told me his wife fell several weeks ago, that she had a fear of hospitals and didn’t want to go.
“He then said, ‘Am I going to jail for this?’ The woman was lying naked on the floor with sores and a bad leg. I’d never seen anything like this before.”
The trial before judge Lord Burns continues.
