"As I came round the side of the house, Mrs Pudney was lying on her back with her head to the right. Next-door neighbour Daniel Clark told the court he had rushed to the couple's aid after hearing Mr Pudney's screams. He said they had spent several weeks whilst his wife was on sick leave tidying their home, and had eventually turned their attention to the garden, deciding to prune a number of apple trees which were overgrown. "Pauline managed me extremely well, we discussed things, but she was the person who really ran the family." Her whole life was devoted to housing and she loved her children more than anything in the world.
Mr Pudney said: "She was very special, she worked very hard and was very good at her job. The couple, who had been married for 30 years, had sons Alex, 22, and Christopher, 21, who had both left the family home. I knew what had happened as soon as I saw the golf ball." "He must have jumped at her or jumped at the ladder. "She had her back to him and he couldn't bark so he used to jump at people to get their attention. "The dog must have picked up the golf ball and run to Pauline before I fell. "I went back to the garden the next day and I was just looking when I saw the golf ball underneath the branches and I knew exactly what had happened," Mr Pudney said. Mr Pudney said that, as the couple began work on the tree before the accident, his wife had tossed a golf ball to their young dog, which she was attempting to teach fetching skills. She had been taking anti-depressants and the couple had planned to retire, discussing plans to move to the countryside and breed golden retriever dogs. The court was told that Mrs Pudney, who had won an award for her housing work, was on sick leave at the time after struggling to cope with the death of her mother last June. He said: "People started getting me to go back inside the house and I knew she was dead." He said he screamed out as he rushed inside their home and returned to the garden as he heard an ambulance pulling in to their quiet cul-de-sac. I could see that she was hurt and knew I had to go and phone an ambulance." Some people came and there was lots of noise. I just looked over and she was lying there and I could see blood. "Then I just heard a bang and the next thing I remember I was lying on the ground," he said. He broke down several times as he told the court how his wife had been supporting the base of a ladder as he cut branches off apple trees in their garden.
Southwark Coroner's Court heard that, following the incident, Mr Pudney, of Eltham, south-east London, was heard screaming and sobbing uncontrollably over his wife's body. Mrs Pudney, who had worked as a housing officer in Lewisham, south-east London, was killed instantly after she was almost decapitated in the incident. Retired company director Roland Pudney, 56, trembled as he explained how he believes the couple's one-year-old puppy jumped up for attention, causing him to tumble and direct the power tool at Pauline, 57. A distraught husband broke down in tears as he told an inquest how he fell from a ladder and plunged a chainsaw into his wife's neck in a freak gardening accident.
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