Wife of crossbow murderer jailed for driving him away from scene

A woman who helped her husband evade arrest by dirving him to a relative's house in Rochdale after a man was murdered with a crossbow has been jailed.

Gwen Munkley, 55, was given a two-year eight-month sentence for perverting the course of justice and helping her husband supply drugs.

Anthony Munkley, 53, and Lee Roberts, 33, were jailed for life in June for murdering Sion Davies.

The 25-year-old died after falling from a balcony at Munkley's Caia Park estate flat in Wrexham ast October.

Mold Crown Court heard that Munkley called his wife after fleeing the scene.

She was at a supermarket and abandoned her shopping trolley to drive him to a relative's house in Rochdale.

He was arrested the following day.

The judge, Mr Justice Wyn Williams, told her: "Essentially what you did is that knowing your husband had been involved in the killing of the victim in this case, you quite deliberately drove him away from the scene, a distance of some miles, in the hope that he would evade detection."

He said she became aware of what had happened when Munkley and Roberts spoke on the phone but continued with the journey.

The court heard she had been helping her husband in his drug dealing trade for about ten months.

"What you did essentially was to allow your bank account to be used for money laundering," Mr Justice Wyn Williams explained.

She was given concurrent sentences of two years and eight months.