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Two days before Melissa Richmond was stabbed to death by her husband, she showed up at her mother’s home in tears, saying she was “scared to death” to end her troubled marriage for fear of making ends meet on her own.
Her mother, Millie Evans, testified at Howard Richmond’s first-degree murder trial on Wednesday, recounting her daughter’s unannounced visit in July 2013.
“She was really upset. She told me how bad their relationship really was,” Evans told court. “She was scared to death to leave because she didn’t think she had the finances … She wasn’t herself, very unhappy and sad … It wasn’t a marriage anymore. They were living as roommates.”
Evans told her daughter that life was too short to live it unhappy, and promised her financial support. “She was really relieved and said, ‘I feel better now because I don’t have to live like a hobo’,” Evans told the jury trial.
Canadian soldier Howard Richmond, 52, killed his 28-year-old wife just after midnight on July 25, 2013.
The soldier, diagnosed with PTSD in 2011 after enduring horrors on the battlefield, has admitted to stabbing his wife to death with a screwdriver and knife, and his defence team argues he’s not criminally responsible because of his mental disorder.
The prosecution has told the jury a different story, one that presents the warrant officer as a jealous husband who killed his cheating wife after she wanted to end their marriage.
The jury heard on Wednesday morning that money was already tight when she started planning to leave her husband. Though she had two college diplomas, she worked at a series of low-paying jobs — ranging from receptionist, dental hygienist and as a baker at a grocery store.
Richmond, who stands statue-still in the prisoner’s box when his jury files in and out of court, met his much-younger wife about two years before they married in 2005.
The jury heard on Wednesday that his PTSD was so crippling that he slept up to 16 hours a day — sometimes in a closet — and that his wife considered his diagnosis an excuse to be lazy.
The couple had bought a second house with the hopes that the soldier, on medical leave, would fix it up and flip it on the market, but nothing was getting done, court heard.
“That place was a mess … and she’d try to coax him into doing it,” the slain woman’s mother told court Wednesday morning. “There was always an excuse and Melissa was fed up with it.”
The trial continues Wednesday afternoon.
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Her mother, Millie Evans, testified at Howard Richmond’s first-degree murder trial on Wednesday, recounting her daughter’s unannounced visit in July 2013.
“She was really upset. She told me how bad their relationship really was,” Evans told court. “She was scared to death to leave because she didn’t think she had the finances … She wasn’t herself, very unhappy and sad … It wasn’t a marriage anymore. They were living as roommates.”
Evans told her daughter that life was too short to live it unhappy, and promised her financial support. “She was really relieved and said, ‘I feel better now because I don’t have to live like a hobo’,” Evans told the jury trial.
Canadian soldier Howard Richmond, 52, killed his 28-year-old wife just after midnight on July 25, 2013.
The soldier, diagnosed with PTSD in 2011 after enduring horrors on the battlefield, has admitted to stabbing his wife to death with a screwdriver and knife, and his defence team argues he’s not criminally responsible because of his mental disorder.
The prosecution has told the jury a different story, one that presents the warrant officer as a jealous husband who killed his cheating wife after she wanted to end their marriage.
The jury heard on Wednesday morning that money was already tight when she started planning to leave her husband. Though she had two college diplomas, she worked at a series of low-paying jobs — ranging from receptionist, dental hygienist and as a baker at a grocery store.
Richmond, who stands statue-still in the prisoner’s box when his jury files in and out of court, met his much-younger wife about two years before they married in 2005.
The jury heard on Wednesday that his PTSD was so crippling that he slept up to 16 hours a day — sometimes in a closet — and that his wife considered his diagnosis an excuse to be lazy.
The couple had bought a second house with the hopes that the soldier, on medical leave, would fix it up and flip it on the market, but nothing was getting done, court heard.
“That place was a mess … and she’d try to coax him into doing it,” the slain woman’s mother told court Wednesday morning. “There was always an excuse and Melissa was fed up with it.”
The trial continues Wednesday afternoon.
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