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I Shot Hubby Dead Dancing To Shania

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Daily Star - UK
March 30, 2006

A wife blasted her husband dead with a shotgun while doing a sexy dance to a Shania Twain song.

Tearful Linda West told a court yesterday she was gyrating to Man! I Feel Like A Woman when it fired by accident.

West, 49, demonstrated her sexy routine to the jury using a broom handle.

Gregory, her husband of two months, was killed instantly by a shot to his chest.

His wife dialled 999 and sobbed down the phone: "Oh my God, I have shot him."

Police called to the flat [and] found the 45-year-old dead in an armchair wearing only a dressing gown.

The prosecution claim the couple had argued that evening and West had deliberatley shot the marine engineer.

But West, who denies murder and manslaughter, told Winchester Crown Court she had been cavorting at their Southampton flat to fulfil her husband's fantasy. West, a petite blonde, re-enacted her moves using the broom handle telling the jury: "I'm holding the barrels of the gun and i'm dancing holding the gun. I was entertaining my husband.

"Towards the end of the record, when the record finished, I ended up putting the gun down on the floor to the side of me."

Then, with tears streaming, she said: "It just went off... it just went bang."

The double-barreled shotgun's safety catch was not working properly.

Weapons experts said if dropped the gun could go off without anyone touching the trigger.

West told the court she did not know this.

She also described her sexual relationship with her husband as "experimental".

The trial continues.

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