What NOT to do when your mother-in-law dies
An angry husband locked his wife in a garden shed during a row when she insulted his dead mother.
Andrew Salmon, 42, admitted attacking Beverley Salmon, also 42, at their home in Truro in a rage after she chanted ‘Ding dong, the witch is dead’ when his mother died.
Salmon, who has no previous convictions, told officers he had locked her in the shed to ‘p*** her off’, but said he knew she would be able to climb out of the window.
He told police he had been suffering from depression and said: ‘I was provoked, but I am sorry for what I have done to my wife and regret everything I did.’
Speaking after the court case Salmon said his wife of almost twenty years acted ‘extremely unsympathetic’ after his mother passed away on December 27 last year.
Andrew said he has suffered from depression and stress since the incident on February 6.
He said: ‘She never really got on with my mum or any of my relatives and when my mum died she was horrible and offered me no support – she was extremely unsympathetic.
‘She would sing “ding dong the witch is dead” from time to time and didn’t even come to her funeral.
‘It was a really difficult time for me and my family.’
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