Stephen Richard Carr denied that he had aimed the arrows at her and that he had wanted to harm her.
He told Leeds Crown Court he was a very good shot with a bow and arrow and if he had wanted to, he could “easily, very easily” have hit her with the arrows.
Stephen Carr, 57, alleged that his wife Lorna Carr was trying to "change me, control what I was doing" and he wanted to "scare" her into stopping what she was doing.
The jury at Leeds Crown Court heard one of the arrows went into the wooden part of a door between the two of them.
The husband alleged he fired the second into a duvet when they were both in their bedroom and the third onto the floor a couple of feet from where she was crouched.
Asked by his barrister Gulam Ahmed why he had told his wife during the incident on September 8last year “you are dying tonight” he replied: “People say lots of things, they don’t always mean them.”
Earlier he had alleged: “I love her dearly, I absolutely love Lorna to bits. She is a beautiful woman, I idolise her.”
The couple married in April 2024 and had been living together since October 2023.
Leeds Crown Court heard that Lorna Carr had 10 wounds between three and 10 cm deep in her back and other injuries.
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