11-Feb-2012 - George Huguely’s videotaped statement played for jury

Visted 11 times

“I never did anything that could do that to her,” they watched Huguely tell a detective.Earlier in that interview, Huguely had told police he had gone to see Love “just to talk” about running arguments the couple had been having. Love told him to go away when he first knocked on her locked bedroom door, but he told her to let him in, Huguely said in the tape. When she didn’t, he told police, he kicked through the door — an admission he made only after a detective repeatedly asked him how he had gotten into the room.Huguely said “I may have grabbed her a little but around the neck . . . but I never strangled her,” when a Charlottesville police detective asked him to explain why Love had a bruise nfl jerseys from china on her neck.The videotape was played for jurors here on the third day of Huguely’s murder trial in Love’s 2010 death. The couple, who were approaching graduation at the University of Virginia at the time, were accomplished athletes who had been in an on-and-off relationship over two years.Before Huguely lapsed into a chorus of “she’s not dead,” he had given his account of what happened that May night in Love’s off-campus apartment. After he came through the door, nfl jerseys cheap Huguely said “I shook her a little bit.” He told police on the tape that Love was knocking her own head against a wall near her bed as she repeatedly said she didn’t want to talk and told him to leave. “She was all freaked out just at seeing me. She kept hitting her head against the wall.”The couple wrestled he said, and at one point they were on the floor by her bed, “she was flopping, like a fish out of water,” Huguely said.Her nose was bleeding “a little bit,” when they stood up, Huguely told police, and he “tossed” and “pushed” her back on to her bed before leaving. He estimated he was in the apartment for no more than 10 minutes.“I did not” call paramedics, Huguely said. “I didn’t think she was in need” of medical help, he said when a detective asked why he had left her bleeding.Huguely said “I never struck her,” and “I never hit her in the face.” A medical examiner nhl jerseys from china has ruled that Love, 22, died of blunt force trauma to the head.Huguely, 24 of Chevy Chase, has pleaded not guilty to murder and five other charges and his defense team has indicated they will contend that Love’s death could have been from an irregular heartbeat brought from her prescribed use of the attention-control drug Adderall. Her black and blue and swollen eye and bruising on her chest could have gone from EMTs’ efforts to resuscitate her after a roommate returned home and found Love dead.

Comments (0)Post Comment View Whole Blog