Wife 'unpegged washing as husband died'.

From: Yorkshire Post (Leeds, England) | Date: October 9, 2007 | Copyright information

A judge's spurned wife took clothes off a washing line as her cheating husband burned to death in a garden shed just yards away, an inquest was told.

Crown Court judge Andrew Chubb, 58, died in a fireball at his home near Chard, Somerset, shortly after telling his wife of 34 years - Jennifer, 60 - that he wanted a divorce.

Neighbours told a second inquest into the judge's mysterious death how Mrs Chubb immediately claimed her husband had committed suicide and...

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