Parking fines for NHS clerk in op trauma
Wife killer feigned surprise Trapped by blood on socks
AN NHS worker was given two parking fines while she had emergency surgery at the hospital she works for.
Claire Maloney, a clerk, fell ill with a uterus infection during a late shift.
She emerged four days after the operation to find two penalty notices on her windscreen, because she does not yet have a permit.
Having joined Medway Maritime Hospital, Kent, in September, Claire, 23, is still waiting for it to arrive.
Gary Lupton, of Medway NHS Trust, said new staff awaiting permits – which they pay for – can use the “off-site parking facility”.
Claire, from Gillingham, who has appealed the fine, says parking fees “penalise” staff and should be axed. A MAN who battered his wife to death with a crowbar was caught on police camera at the murder scene pretending to be shocked.
David Pomphret, 51, clasped his head in his hands as he claimed he had merely stumbled across Ann Marie, 49, lying dead in a pool of blood.
Bodycam footage showed him gaping as he sat in the back of ambulance. He told an officer at the murder scene: “She’s lying there, oh God, she’s just lying there.”
The Barclays IT worker kept up his charade of innocence for six months and almost got away with the “perfect murder”. But tiny specks of “airborne” blood on his socks put him at the scene of the crime – and yesterday he was convicted of killing his wife of 22 years.
Gordon Cole QC, prosecuting, told the jury that Pomphret’s “huge mistake” was failing to destroy his socks.
He added: “Without the socks, there is no forensic evidence linking him to the scene.” The 10-day trial heard Pomphret bludgeoned Ann Marie, mother of his daughter Megan, 18, more than 30 times over the head at stables where the couple kept horses near their home in Winwick, Cheshire, last November.
He washed the blood off his hands, threw the crowbar into a pond, burned his bloodstained clothes and dialled 999.
During the call he told the operator: “It looks like she has had her head beaten in.” Asked if he tried CPR, he said: “Oh, jeez, I almost threw up.” The trial at Ann Marie Pomphret Pair hours before the murder Liverpool crown court heard Ann Marie, who had Asperger syndrome, could be a difficult person. Pomphret, who had suffered erectile dysfunction, “flipped” when she called him “limp and useless”.
But after the verdict yesterday, David Jones, of Mersey Cheshire CPS, said: “Ann Marie Pomphret may not have been an easy person, but she didn’t deserve to die.
“David Pomphret thought he’d committed the perfect murder but killers always eventually make mistakes.”
Judge David Aubrey QC told impassive Pomphret: “There can only be one sentence – life imprisonment.” He will set the minimum term on Tuesday.