TRIAL: Judge Nicolas Cartwright is presiding over the trial at Worcester Crown Court A ‘BULLY’ accused of trying to drown his ‘terrified’ former partner in the bath says he was only trying to frighten her and did not want to kill her, a court heard. Richard Evans entered the witness box on Wednesday, telling a jury he ‘could not cope’ when he attacked Jane Webster in the bath at his home in Ronkswood Hill, Worcester. The 48-year-old said he told Mrs Webster to ‘get in the bath’ after a night out drinking in the Gun Tavern in Worcester on July 4 last year. Jennifer Josephs, prosecuting, described Evans as a ‘bully’ and a ‘controlling man’ when she cross-examined him.
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1/1 A HORRIFIED dad accused of trying to drown his partner in the bath stopped the attack himself, a jury was told. Jane Webster appeared over live link at Worcester Crown Court yesterday, telling the jury how Richard Evans attacked her at his home in Ronkswood Hill, Worcester as she screamed for help. The 48-year-old defendant denies attempted murder but admits assault occasioning actual bodily harm and making a threat to kill following the attack on July 4 last year. The couple, who had been together 12 years, had been drinking at the Gun Tavern in Worcester, the first day the pub reopened after the initial coronavirus lockdown.