Jealous husband found guilty of murdering his wife’s secret lover

A JEALOUS builder who lured his wife’s secret lover to a remote farm where he shot him dead in a carefully planned execution has been convicted of murder.

Andrew Jones, 53, discovered Michael O’Leary, 55, was having an affair with his wife Rhianon, 51, and set about planning the ultimate revenge.

After gunning him down in cold blood, Jones made the fatherof- three’s disappearance look like suicide and then burnt his remains in a rusty oil drum – even holding a morbid funeral service for his friend of 25 years.

Jones, of Bronwydd Road, Carmarthen, denied murder but was convicted by a majority of 11- toone by a jury at Swansea Crown Court after 13 hours and 25 minutes of deliberations.

He was remanded into custody and will be sentenced on a date to be fixed by Mrs Justice Jefford.

The court heard Mr O’Leary was murdered on the evening of January 27 this year after being lured with the promise of a

“cwtch” – a cuddle – to Cyncoed Farm in Cwmffrwd, Carmarthenshire, to meet Mrs Jones.

Instead, he found her husband crouched behind a dustbin armed with a .22 Colt rifle who shot him dead after ignoring his pleas for mercy, begging him: “Please don’t do it, Jones.”

He then drove his victim’s Nissan

Navara to a riverside car park where he sent messages purporting to be from Mr O’Leary to his wife and children, saying “I am so sorry x”, before cycling back to the farm.

Jones used a forklift truck to load Mr O’Leary’s body into his wife’s car and took it home to Camarthen where he destroyed it.

The site manager’s body has never been found and forensic scientists have only ever recovered a small piece of his intestine from the oil drum in a yard adjacent to his home.

Dyfed- Powys Police said officers were alerted by Mr O’Leary’s worried family after receiving the text messages.