“My wife died in a terrible way and I was not going to let her remains be thrown down the tip like garbage”, Mr Fred Boyle said. He stood accused of murdering Edwina, who, he claims, was shot in the head and strangled with one of his own ties as she slept in the marital bed next to him. “I didn’t do it,” Fred said, “It wasn’t me.” He admitted that he had put her body in a 44 gallon drum where it stayed for 23 years, and told people that she had run off with Ray, a truck driver. After finding her dead body in the bed, he “went into the kitchen and cried for hours. I didn’t know what to do. I thought, I am knackered now because I had an affair with a woman and no one would believe me.” The trial continues.