Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Wife plotted to kill her husband in series of ‘unfortunate events’
‘Helped by her lover and his daughter’
A HUSBAND was shot in the face after his cheating wife, her lover and his daughter plotted to kill him, a court heard yesterday.
The shooting allegedly happened after several other attempts to murder Raymond Weatherall, who was terminally ill with a brain tumour.
Mr Weatherall’s wife Hayley, 32, her lover – his best friend Glenn Pollard, 49 – and Pollard’s daughter Heather, 20, had tried to poison him, blow him up and drown him while fishing, the court was told.
The attempts on his life were passed off as accidents, unfortunate events or harmless coincidences, jurors heard.
Internet searches were also allegedly carried out by
Heather, which referred to “techniques on silent killing”, “creative ways to kill someone” and “16 steps to kill someone and not get caught”.
Last November, Mr Weatherall was shot in the face – with the bullet passing through his right cheek and out of the left – at Sandwich Marina in Kent.
Police discovered Heather Pollard’s Citroen car had been found “parked awkwardly” and abandoned in the area on the day of the shooting.
Prosecutor Simon Taylor told Maidstone crown court: “In the months between the summer of 2017 and early spring of 2018, each of these three defendants agreed that Raymond Weatherall should be murdered and each of them took steps to carry out that agreement.”
Mr Taylor said the motive for wanting to kill Mr Weatherall was his wife’s affair with Pollard, assisted by his daughter who was “a real daddy’s girl”.
Hayley and Raymond Weatherall married in November 2016. They had three children together.
Weatherall of Ash, and Glenn and Heather Pollard, of West Stourmouth, both in Kent, all deny conspiracy to murder. The trial
continues.
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