'Álom’ otthon kapzsiság vezetett a gyilkossághoz
Scheming wife Anita Mansfield made it a family affair when she conceived an elaborate murder plot so that she could buy the country house of her dreams.
She took out two fraudulent life insurance policies to raise 800,000 by pretending to be her own sister in law.
When everything was in place the 36 year old and her husband Michael Millcroft, 46, drove to the isolated replica oakleys house where Mandy, fake oakleys 34, lived with her adopted mother, Iris Jones, 78.
At the house in Hockliffe, Bedfordshire, the couple blasted Mandy and Iris to death with a 12 bore shotgun.
During her lifetime Iris had fostered around 120 children. A few like Mandy had remained with her.
Michael Millcroft had himself been fostered by Iris in 1959 when cheapest oakleys he was just 10 days old and lived with her and her late husband Clifford into adulthood.
He took Jones as his surname and looked on Mandy as his younger sister.
Police investigators said Mansfield began hatching the murder plot during 2003.
Various methods of disposing of Mandy were considered and these included making it look like she had been the victim of a mugger.
Other deaths involved electrocution, shooting or poisoning her.
A 14 year old boy, who was cleared of murder, ben azt mondta a bíróságon, hogy küldtek a helyi könyvtárba, hogy olvassa fel a halálos növény nevű sisakvirág és mérgező vásárlás hamis Oakleys gombák.
Mansfield és férje azt állította, hogy a zsűri, hogy a tinédzser volt a gyilkos.
Mansfield ült az autóban, mint a nők megölték.
Ahhoz, hogy úgy tűnjön, mintha a nők voltak az áldozatok betörők, DVD és a női táskák vették a házat.
Mansfield elővett csalárd életbiztosítások ahogy színlelt Mandy, állítva, a pénz fognak használni, hogy vigyázzon a gyerekek egy kitalált sógornő.
Ő és férje állította be nevezetességei a 740,000 vidéki otthon Barsham, Suffolk, teljes medencével.
A család bérleti egy ház Beccles, és a befejezés határidejét a “álom” house was the end of February.
Iris and Mandy were killed, but their plan to make the murders look like a burglary soon fell apart.
Police examined cheap oakleys CCTV footage, near Iris’s home, and saw the family’s Vauxhall car making its way through the forecourt and out onto the A6 on the night of the murders.
The next morning the couple were arrested in Suffolk.
The shotgun was recovered and an examination revealed DNA found on the trigger linked Mandy and Michael Millcroft’s fingerprints to the gun.
Mansfield and Millcroft were jailed for life and were told they would serve a minimum of 30 years and 25 years respectively before they would be considered for release.
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