Wife jailed for kill plot
Ex-husband still fears for his life
A GOLD Coast man was so terrified his ex-wife would kill him he wore a bulletproof vest around the clock and eventually had a heart attack.
Malcolm Stewart says he will forever fear for his life even after Theresa Dalton was put behind bars for paying $20,000 in her failed plan to have him killed.
“She could try another move, she’s that sort of person, she never ever lets go,” he told reporters outside the Brisbane Supreme Court yesterday.
“I will still have eyes on the back of my head the day that she does come out.”
The former flight attendant was found guilty of arranging a hit on her exhusband in 2010 amid a bitter property settlement after
I WILL STILL HAVE EYES ON THE BACK OF MY HEAD THE DAY THAT SHE DOES COME OUT
MALCOLM STEWART
their marriage fell apart three years earlier.
She was sentenced to six years in prison yesterday, but will be eligible to apply for parole in August 2021.
Dalton wanted her husband of 24 years dead because she feared he’d take too big a slice of the $3 million in shared assets they were splitting.
The fear and stress of being taken out crippled Mr Stewart.
He bought a guard dog to sleep on his bed after their split, wore a bulletproof vest day and night for 14 months, eyed cars he thought were following him and later suffered a heart attack.
Mr Stewart said he kept his windows and blinds closed so he couldn’t be seen by anyone planning a driveby shooting, noted cars that visited his business and became depressed.
Dalton’s then-boyfriend Anthony Werner’s old mate Matthew Neels, who Dalton hired to carry out the hit, fled with the cash and never did the job.
She maintained her innocence during her sentencing for attempting to procure the commission of Mr Stewart’s murder, claiming she had never once broken the law.
“I am innocent, I feel this has been a catastrophic miscarriage of justice,” she said.
“I find myself here for something I’m not guilty of.”