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Domestic abuser jailed for killing wife who took her own life in Scotland
Prosecutors said 18 months of coercive abuse was a significant factor in Kimberley Milne’s death, a first-of-its-kind case in Scotland.
- Lee Milne, 40, was convicted of culpable homicide for causing the death of his wife, Kimberley Milne, who died by suicide after an 18-month domestic abuse campaign in Dundee on July 27, 2023.
- Milne subjected Kimberley to physical violence, verbal abuse, coercion, and controlling her finances and contacts between January 2022 and July 2023.
- On the day of Kimberley's death, Milne acted aggressively and intimidatingly, driving erratically with her in the car and shouting at her, which contributed to her fear and distress before she jumped from a road bridge.
- Milne was sentenced to eight years in prison with a subsequent three-year extended sentence, marking the first prosecution of its kind in Scotland where a partner was held legally responsible for such a death.
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A convicted paedophile has been jailed for killing his vulnerable wife after he terrorised her so extremely that she “climbed over the barrier of a Dundee road bridge and fell to her death”. Lee Milne beat, choked and verbally abused 28-year-old Kimberly Milne before her death from multiple vehicle impacts in 2023. The jury in the Glasgow trial agreed that Kimberly was “clearly terrified” of her husband and was “taking a course of action to get …
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