Woods’s wife and friend face charges

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34129, 15 April 1976, Page 4

Woods’s wife and friend face charges

Krissie, wife of Ronnie Wood of the Stones and Faces, was accused last week in Kingston Crown Court, London, with her friend Audrey Burgon, a 28-year-old dressmaker, of possessing heroin. The court was told that when police raided the Woods’ home in Richmond Hill they found the two girls in a large circular bed. They also found cocaine. Sir Peter Rawlinson, Q.C., defence counsel for 27-year-old Krissie Wood, told the court that Mrs Wood had not been in the house for

weeks before the raid because of disputes with her husband about what was going on there. But now there had been a reconciliation and she was pregnant. Mrs Wood told the court that she and Miss Burgon, of Branham Gardens, Earls Court. London, had a drink of hot milk and honey before going to bed — but no cocaine. Mrs Wood, born in Malta and educated at grammar school and private schools, talked about being married to a pop star. “You lie under an awful lot of pressure,” she said. “You live constantly under

threat of kidnap. Other women don’t like it because I am their pop idol’s wife.” In one incident the Mercedes she was in was thrown against a wall by fans. Mrs Wood had rows with her husband about “unattractive” hangers-on who came to the house. She started building doors to stop people going into private parts of the house. “I changed the locks 10 times I think because keys, were getting into the hands of the wrong people. People I didn’t know had keys,” she said. The two have pleaded guilty.