Richard Satchwell’s narrative of how his wife died after he held her off by the belt of her bathrobe is “absolutely farcical” and has more holes in it than a block of Swiss cheese, a prosecution barrister has told a Central Criminal Court jury.
Gerardine Small SC, for the Director of Public Prosecutions, today gave her closing speech in the trial of Mr Satchwell, submitting that the British truck driver had woven “a web of deceit” and continued his “fabricated narrative” over the years when he engaged with the media and “anyone who would indulge him”.
The Leicester native, counsel submitted, was “shamelessly brazen right up to the very end” until his wife’s remains were discovered at…