Millionaire who killed his wife is ordered to pay two sons £1.5m
A MULTI-MILLIONAIRE car dealer who brutally murdered his wife has been ordered to pay two of his sons more than £1.5 million for butchering their mother.
Ben and Nicholas Workman said their father Ian brutally slaughtered their mum Susan during a divorce row to avoid paying her half his fortune.
She had split up with the successful car dealer and, had she lived, would have been entitled to an equal share of everything.
And if allowed to keep the cash, he would have ‘profited’ from killing their mother with a single stab wound to the heart, the brothers said.
Now three senior judges at the Court of Appeal have backed Ben, 27, Nicholas, 23, and Susan’s sister, Carol Forrester.
The 63-year-old killer, who is serving life, was ordered to pay out £1,503,579, plus an estimated £500,000 in legal costs.
Workman had refused to co-operate with the legal process or obey court orders and had forfeited his right to defend himself, the judges ruled.
Said to have been worth about £3.3m, Workman killed his 55-year-old wife following a frenzied row at the family home in Edgworth, near Bolton. He stabbed her through the heart with a large kitchen knife in April 2011 as they rowed about their divorce, in which she was claiming £1.5 million. He was convicted of her murder at Preston Crown Court in December 2011. During his trial, Workman insisted he acted in self-defence after his wife came at him with a kitchen knife. But jurors disbelieved him and his conviction challenge was turned down by the Criminal Appeal Court in 2014. After Workman’s trial, Ben and Nicholas put their names to a family statement welcoming “this man’s” conviction.” “Sue did not deserve to have her life ended this way for greed and money,” they said. Workman has always insisted that he didn’t kill his wife for the money and accused Ben and Nicholas of treating him “unfairly and oppressively”. However, the brothers and Mrs Forrester, who sued on behalf of her dead sister’s estate, were determined to stop him profiting from his crime. Judgment for £1,503,579 was entered against Workman in 2013 after he failed to comply with court asset freezing orders.
Sue did not deserve to have her life ended this way for greed and money Family statement