Al Qaida may had crashed planes but never killed wife. CCB Ang Moh BA Pilot did!
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Pilot Robert Brown planned to crash a plane after killing Jo
By Julie Spencer
May 19, 2011
A British Airways pilot accused of murdering his millionairess wife told a court that “years of harassment” by divorce lawyers had destroyed his family.
Robert Brown told a jury at Reading Crown Court on Tuesday that he had not murdered 46-year-old Joanna but when he realised he had caused her death he wanted to crash a plane to commit suicide.
“I intended to kill myself because I knew what happened was terrible. I had a choice – suicide or prison.”
He said he had planned to hang himself from a child’s swing or crash his plane to make a statement about the way lawyers had handled the divorce.
On the sixth day of his trial for the murder of Mrs Brown, from Ascot, Brown said he had changed his mind about killing himself when he considered the implications.
He said: “It hit me what suicide meant. I would never see my family or children again.
“I did think ‘how the hell has it come to this?’. All these years of harassment by lawyers has created animosity that has destroyed my family.
“You read it in newspapers, husband kills wife, commits suicide, a small column in a newspaper, forgotten.”
Brown, of North Street, Winkfield, denies murdering Mrs Brown, but admits the killing on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
On Monday he held his head in his hands as he apologised to his wife’s family who were sitting in the public gallery.
The court heard Brown and his wife had been locked in a bitter three-year divorce battle.
Brown had rejected an offer of £500,000 and the final hearing about the financial settlements was set for November 8 2010, a week after Mrs Brown’s death.
Prosecuting counsel Graham Reeds QC put it to Brown that he regarded his wife as a “spoilt brat”.
“You thought she was insulated by her wealth, that she did not have the same problems that other people had because she was from a rich family.”
Earlier the court had heard Brown had taken the children home to Tun Cottage after spending half term with him.
They began arguing over the children’s schooling and Brown hit her at least 14 times around the head and face with a hammer in the hall of the mock-Tudor house she ran as a luxury bed and breakfast. The children were in another room at the time.
He then went upstairs and retrieved the CCTV recording device which had a camera covering the driveway. He then laid his wife’s body in the boot of his Volvo estate car, put the children in and drove them to
his house in Winkfield, leaving them with his girlfriend Stephanie Bellemere.
Brown then buried his wife in a plastic crate in isolated woodland on the Crown Estate at Windsor close to Legoland.
Her body was found bound with ties and lying on its side when the crate was opened by police. It also contained paper overalls, duct tape and a mallet.
Cross country runner Brown denied prosecution claims he bought the plastic crate from B & Q as a makeshift coffin and that he had intended his wife’s body would never be found.
He said he buried the empty crate in January 2009 as a symbolic act to put his marriage behind him and later planned to fill it with the legal documents relating to his divorce.
From the witness box, Brown said: “I had to bury the idea of a charade of my marriage. I kept it as a time capsule for my children.”
Brown said he had no clear recollection of the afternoon of Mrs Brown’s death and denied Mr Reeds’ claim that he was in complete control when he drove the children back to his house with their mother’s body
in the boot.
Mr Reeds QC said: “You realised you had killed her. Your son was asking to take Mum to hospital. There was not a flicker of emotion.”
Brown replied: “I was completely in a panic and my concern was to get the children to safety. I was just in a complete state of confusion. I was all over the place.”
Brown said he had no real recollection of the afternoon of October 31 when his wife died.
“I only had snapshots of what had happened,” he said.
On Wednesday forensic psychiatrist Dr Philip Joseph gave evidence regarding Brown’s claim he was suffering from a mental disorder at the time of the killing.
Brown’s defence claims he was suffering from an adjustment disorder, which was brought on by the divorce and his girlfriend’s miscarriage.
Dr Joseph told the court it was up to the jury to decide whether Brown had a mental disorder or if he was reacting to stress.
He said: “The issue of planning is vital to be considered by the jury.
“If they take the view that the killing was planned and he was under stress it [the claim of a mental disorder] is of no relevance when considering his actions, which are the culmination of a plan to kill his wife.”
Brown denies murder and obstructing a coroner.
The trial continues.
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http://www.getbracknell.co.uk/news/...wn_planned_to_crash_a_plane_after_killing_jo_
Pilot Robert Brown planned to crash a plane after killing Jo
By Julie Spencer
May 19, 2011
A British Airways pilot accused of murdering his millionairess wife told a court that “years of harassment” by divorce lawyers had destroyed his family.
Robert Brown told a jury at Reading Crown Court on Tuesday that he had not murdered 46-year-old Joanna but when he realised he had caused her death he wanted to crash a plane to commit suicide.
“I intended to kill myself because I knew what happened was terrible. I had a choice – suicide or prison.”
He said he had planned to hang himself from a child’s swing or crash his plane to make a statement about the way lawyers had handled the divorce.
On the sixth day of his trial for the murder of Mrs Brown, from Ascot, Brown said he had changed his mind about killing himself when he considered the implications.
He said: “It hit me what suicide meant. I would never see my family or children again.
“I did think ‘how the hell has it come to this?’. All these years of harassment by lawyers has created animosity that has destroyed my family.
“You read it in newspapers, husband kills wife, commits suicide, a small column in a newspaper, forgotten.”
Brown, of North Street, Winkfield, denies murdering Mrs Brown, but admits the killing on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
On Monday he held his head in his hands as he apologised to his wife’s family who were sitting in the public gallery.
The court heard Brown and his wife had been locked in a bitter three-year divorce battle.
Brown had rejected an offer of £500,000 and the final hearing about the financial settlements was set for November 8 2010, a week after Mrs Brown’s death.
Prosecuting counsel Graham Reeds QC put it to Brown that he regarded his wife as a “spoilt brat”.
“You thought she was insulated by her wealth, that she did not have the same problems that other people had because she was from a rich family.”
Earlier the court had heard Brown had taken the children home to Tun Cottage after spending half term with him.
They began arguing over the children’s schooling and Brown hit her at least 14 times around the head and face with a hammer in the hall of the mock-Tudor house she ran as a luxury bed and breakfast. The children were in another room at the time.
He then went upstairs and retrieved the CCTV recording device which had a camera covering the driveway. He then laid his wife’s body in the boot of his Volvo estate car, put the children in and drove them to
his house in Winkfield, leaving them with his girlfriend Stephanie Bellemere.
Brown then buried his wife in a plastic crate in isolated woodland on the Crown Estate at Windsor close to Legoland.
Her body was found bound with ties and lying on its side when the crate was opened by police. It also contained paper overalls, duct tape and a mallet.
Cross country runner Brown denied prosecution claims he bought the plastic crate from B & Q as a makeshift coffin and that he had intended his wife’s body would never be found.
He said he buried the empty crate in January 2009 as a symbolic act to put his marriage behind him and later planned to fill it with the legal documents relating to his divorce.
From the witness box, Brown said: “I had to bury the idea of a charade of my marriage. I kept it as a time capsule for my children.”
Brown said he had no clear recollection of the afternoon of Mrs Brown’s death and denied Mr Reeds’ claim that he was in complete control when he drove the children back to his house with their mother’s body
in the boot.
Mr Reeds QC said: “You realised you had killed her. Your son was asking to take Mum to hospital. There was not a flicker of emotion.”
Brown replied: “I was completely in a panic and my concern was to get the children to safety. I was just in a complete state of confusion. I was all over the place.”
Brown said he had no real recollection of the afternoon of October 31 when his wife died.
“I only had snapshots of what had happened,” he said.
On Wednesday forensic psychiatrist Dr Philip Joseph gave evidence regarding Brown’s claim he was suffering from a mental disorder at the time of the killing.
Brown’s defence claims he was suffering from an adjustment disorder, which was brought on by the divorce and his girlfriend’s miscarriage.
Dr Joseph told the court it was up to the jury to decide whether Brown had a mental disorder or if he was reacting to stress.
He said: “The issue of planning is vital to be considered by the jury.
“If they take the view that the killing was planned and he was under stress it [the claim of a mental disorder] is of no relevance when considering his actions, which are the culmination of a plan to kill his wife.”
Brown denies murder and obstructing a coroner.
The trial continues.
