Overview
- Tracey Davies was found dead at the couple’s home in Cefn Cribwr on April 18, 2025, and a post-mortem concluded she died from pressure to the neck.
- Her husband, Michael Davies, admits he killed her but has pleaded diminished responsibility and guilty only to manslaughter while prosecutors say they will not accept that plea.
- Police found Davies injured at the scene with cuts and stab wounds, he was arrested and treated in hospital, and in recorded interviews he described putting his hands on her neck and then losing memory of events.
- Court evidence presented this week includes his internet searches about paranoia and jealousy, testimony that he returned from working in Abu Dhabi on emergency leave the week before the death, and family accounts of a marked change in his behaviour.
- The trial is focusing on the legal threshold for diminished responsibility, which requires proof of an abnormality of mental functioning that substantially impaired his responsibility and, if proved, would reduce a murder conviction to manslaughter.