A MAN jailed for 15 years for trying to strangle his wife at the hospital where she worked has been allowed to phone her landline to speak to their children.

Royston Jones, 39, was locked up after being found guilty of attempted murder at Cardiff Crown Court in February 2015.

Bare-chested Jones had walked into Nevill Hall Hospital in Abergavenny in September last year and attacked his estranged spouse Claire Jones after taking mephedrone, a court heard.

The Recorder of Cardiff, Judge Eleri Rees, imposed a restraining order restricting contact with his wife but on June 4 agreed to amend it to allow him to contact their three children.

A Cardiff Crown Court spokesman said: “The Recorder of Cardiff amended the order by the addition of the following wording for the avoidance of doubt, this order does not prohibit Royston Jones, from calling the landline at the address, for the purpose of speaking to this children.”

The court heard how "heroic" colleagues and hospital staff came to the nurse's aid and managed to restrain 6ft-tall Jones, saving her life.

The "muscular", 15-stone former delivery driver was addicted to mephedrone and had taken 14 grams of the drug in just two hours before arriving at the hospital, the court was told.

Jones, of Heol Helig in Brynmawr, was found guilty of attempted murder after a week-long trial.