Woman denies murdering parents

AN elderly couple were shot dead and buried in their garden by their daughter and son-inlaw who raked in £245,000 by pretending they were still alive for 15 years, a jury has heard.

Debt-ridden Susan and Christopher Edwards sold the home of Patricia and William Wycherley and collected benefits and pension payments as the pair's bodies lay undiscovered from 1998 to 2013, Nottingham Crown Court was told.

A jury was told neighbours and relatives of Mr and Mrs Wycherley, aged 85 and 63, were told that they had gone travelling or had moved to the coast.

Prosecutor Peter Joyce QC said the Edwards’, who married in 1983, had been in “severe financial difficulties” for much of their relationship and remained £160,000 in debt when they were arrested last October.

Mr Joyce alleged the “reclusive” victims were murdered in May 1998 at their home in Forest Town, Mansfield.

Mrs Edwards (56) admits her mother’s manslaughter but, along with her husband (57), denies two counts of murder. RELATIVES of the only man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing have embarked on a legal bid to clear his name amid claims that his case is the “worst miscarriage of justice in British legal history”.

Six immediate members of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi's family have joined forces with 24 British relatives of those who died in the atrocity to seek a third appeal against his conviction in the Scottish courts.

They have submitted an application to the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission for a review.

Megrahi (above), who died in 2012, was found guilty of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Scotland in which 270 people were killed.