Overview
- Wellings, who admitted contempt on Friday, May 8, had seven months added to his prison term to run after his existing sentence.
- He broke a clear order not to discuss his evidence and spoke in eight prison calls with partner Emma Croft and mother Lisa Green between December 17, 2024 and January 2, 2025.
- Prosecutors said the calls amounted to witness coaching, citing advice to show remorse, cry in court, and stress self‑defence and Kiena Dawes’s mental health.
- Judge Robert Altham called the conduct a serious interference with the integrity of the trial but said he could not conclude the verdict was changed.
- Croft received a six‑month sentence suspended for 20 months, and Green received 15 months suspended with a curfew and rehabilitation days; earlier, Green and Michael Wellings got suspended terms for kidnapping their granddaughter after Dawes’s death.