Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
‘Song taunts’ wife attacked with machete
A WIFE repeatedly played a raunchy Rihanna hit to taunt her husband about her younger lover before he attacked her with a machete, a court heard.
Yvonne Wing, 45, allegedly kept rewinding to the words “it f*** me so good and I can’t get enough” in the hit Love on the Brain.
Husband David Wing, 56, had “no problem” with her having sex with Don Watkins, 37, but snapped when he found she wanted to leave their marriage for him, the court was told.
He hit her around the head with a 2ft machete, fracturing her skull. Prosecutor James Wilson said: “He intended to kill her.”
Mr Wing of Porth, Rhondda admits GBH but denies attempted murder. The trial continues at Cardiff crown court. archive, including postcards and spanning around 50 years, also features photos of them being reunited in the US in the 1950s. The lot, being sold on Thursday in Nottingham, is tipped to fetch £3,000. Ted’s grandson Geoffrey Nolan, 70, said: “My grandad and Stan were great friends and he would speak about him often.” The duo toured in 1912 as the Barto Bros.
Stan, then Stan Jefferson who was born in Ulverston, Lancs, took up a spot in a troupe in the US in 1913.
His note in April of that year said to Ted, of Southend-on-sea, Essex, “drop me a line old boy”. Stan, who became a huge star alongside comedy sidekick Oliver Hardy in the 1920s, died in 1965, aged 74. Ted died in 1962, also 74.