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Pictured: Christopher Sabine, the son of John Sabine from a previous marriage, outside the Aberdare Coroner's Court after the verdict Thursday 19 May 2016
Re: A man found wrapped in plastic in his Rhondda Cynon Taff garden was unlawfully killed, a coroner has concluded.
The body of John Henry Sabine was found at the rear of flats at Trem-y-Cwm, Beddau, on 24 November. The cause of death was blunt force head trauma.
Mr Sabine's wife Leigh Ann, who...
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COPY BY TOM BEDFORD
Pictured: Christopher Sabine, the son of John Sabine from a previous marriage, outside the Aberdare Coroner's Court after the verdict Thursday 19 May 2016
Re: A man found wrapped in plastic in his Rhondda Cynon Taff garden was unlawfully killed, a coroner has concluded.
The body of John Henry Sabine was found at the rear of flats at Trem-y-Cwm, Beddau, on 24 November. The cause of death was blunt force head trauma.
Mr Sabine's wife Leigh Ann, who died last October, is the main suspect.
His inquest in Aberdare was told she admitted killing her husband with a stone frog in a phone call to a friend.
South Wales Central Coroner Andrew Barkley said it was "beyond doubt in my mind that foul play was the cause of his death".
He said the cause was blunt force injury to the head, with the evidence about the stone frog fitting with this.
The coroner said there was no recorded history of domestic violence or that Mrs Sabine acted in self defence and he was satisfied her husband was unlawfully killed.
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