Farmer stages wife's death for insurance money.
source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1083277/Debt-ridden-farmer-murdered-wife-running-tra...
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A two-timing, debt-ridden farmer ran over his wife in a tractor to claim £400,000 insurance and start a new life with his lover, a court has heard.
Robert Wilson, 40, told police he had accidentally ran over his 53-year-old wife Jane as she was suddenly knocked her into his tractor's path whilst feeding the cows.
During interviews with police, Wilson said he "lived for" his wife and had nothing to carry on for. The body of the part-time postmistress was duly cremated and the case was treated as a tragic accident.
But suspicions were later aroused by the victim's adult children from a previous marriage when they found a cards from Wilson’s Spanish lover 'Cathy' in their late mother's bedroom three weeks after her death. The cards clearly suggested that Wilson was involved in a secret relationship whilst still married to Jane.
The court later found that Wilson had made six visits to her coastal town of Malaga in 2007 to visit ‘Cathy’. Wilson explained the secrecy around their relationship by posing as a widower — before he murdered his wife — who did not want to upset his dead partner's family.
Prosecutors claim "the timing and the circumstances of Jane Wilson's death present too much of a coincidence" and also allege Wilson's description of the tractor accident did not tally with the physical evidence at the scene.
The case continues....
Robert Wilson, 40, told police he had accidentally ran over his 53-year-old wife Jane as she was suddenly knocked her into his tractor's path whilst feeding the cows.
During interviews with police, Wilson said he "lived for" his wife and had nothing to carry on for. The body of the part-time postmistress was duly cremated and the case was treated as a tragic accident.
But suspicions were later aroused by the victim's adult children from a previous marriage when they found a cards from Wilson’s Spanish lover 'Cathy' in their late mother's bedroom three weeks after her death. The cards clearly suggested that Wilson was involved in a secret relationship whilst still married to Jane.
The court later found that Wilson had made six visits to her coastal town of Malaga in 2007 to visit ‘Cathy’. Wilson explained the secrecy around their relationship by posing as a widower — before he murdered his wife — who did not want to upset his dead partner's family.
Prosecutors claim "the timing and the circumstances of Jane Wilson's death present too much of a coincidence" and also allege Wilson's description of the tractor accident did not tally with the physical evidence at the scene.
The case continues....
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