Christopher Trybus not guilty of driving wife to suicide

A man has been found not guilty of manslaughter after his wife took her own life. Christopher Trybus, who had been accused of abusing Tarryn Baird prior to her death, was also acquitted of controlling and coercive behaviour and two counts of rape. Throughout the five-week trial, Trybus, 44, denied being abusive towards Baird and said she had lied in order to get attention from health professionals. A jury of seven women and five men found him not guilty of all counts at Winchester Crown Court earlier, following 40 hours of deliberations. The couple were married in 2009 in their native South Africa and moved to the UK before settling in Swindon. Her mother, Michelle Baird, relocated to the UK soon after and said her daughter had become distant towards the end of 2015 and would "always cancel" plans. Prior to her death in November 2017, an employee of Swindon Women's Aid (SWA) told the court that Baird had reported multiple incidents of violence to the domestic abuse charity. But Trybus, who ran an IT company, said that he travelled abroad frequently for work and was out of the country on the days of several of the allegations. He said he believed his wife had mental health issues du