■UNITED KINGDOM
Man kills wife ‘in his sleep’
A man killed his wife in his sleep, after dreaming that she was an intruder in their camper van, a court heard on Tuesday. Brian Thomas, who suffers from a sleep disorder, admits killing his wife Christine while they spent a night in a car park in July last year, Swansea Crown court was told. But the 59-year-old is pleading not guilty due to insanity, a lawyer said. The court heard the couple had stopped for the night in a car park, but their sleep was disturbed by young men who gathered there with their cars, revving their engines and screeching their tires. So Thomas decided to move the van to another car park. But the following morning he called police to say he thought he had killed his wife. He said he had been dreaming that he was fighting with the “boy racers” who had disturbed the couple earlier that night. He thought he had put one of them in a headlock, but when he woke up he realized it was his wife.
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