Violent husband staged nurse wife's murder to look like a suicide but was caught after paramedics noticed 'inconsistencies' in his story
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A violent husband who murdered his wife and tried to pass the crime off as a suicide has been jailed for life. Ryan Timms rang for an ambulance in the middle of the night, claiming to have found nurse wife Lynsey hanging at their village home. And police said he almost away with the lie but for the ‘professional curiosity’ of attending paramedics and officers.
![[When paramedics were called shortly before 4am, then found Mrs Timms, 42, pictured, in cardiac arrest and took her to hospital, where she died four days later]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/17/15/93237997-0-image-a-3_1734450192604.jpg)
The 44-year-old was jailed for life on Monday after being convicted of murder – by majority verdict, after a judge heard how he had ‘staged’ a suicide at their home in Hartshill, Warwickshire, in July last year. Following the sentencing, the detective chief inspector who led the investigation said Warwickshire Police said the death of Mrs Timms ‘could easily have been categorised as a suicide’ but for the actions of attending emergency service workers.
![[DCI Collette O’Keefe said: ‘The death of this woman could easily have been categorised as a suicide if it wasn’t for the professional curiosity of attending officers and paramedics.’]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/17/15/93237993-0-image-a-5_1734450279602.jpg)
Sentencing Timms to serve a minimum of 19 years, Mr Justice Jay said mother-of-four Mrs Timms – the daughter of an ambulanceman - had been ‘killed by her husband, whom she was entitled to trust…in her own home, where she was entitled to feel safe.’.
![[When paramedics were called shortly before 4am to the home, and found Mrs Timms, 42, in cardiac arrest and took her to hospital, where she died four days later]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/17/15/93237995-0-image-a-6_1734450329054.jpg)
The court heard the couple had begun rowing after consuming alcohol and consuming cocaine. The judge said Timms, an electrician, had been ‘harping on about a grievance which was already a year old and for which Lynsey must have apologised to you on numerous previous occasions’, causing her to eventually retire to bed.
