Husband is convicted of murdering wife’s lover
A MAN who shot his wife’s lover after luring him to a remote farm has been convicted of his murder.
Andrew Jones, 53, discovered Michael O’Leary, 55, was having an affair with his wife Rhianon, 51, and set about planning revenge, a court heard.
After shooting him, Jones made the father of three’s disappearance look like suicide and then burnt his remains in an oil drum – even holding a morbid funeral service for his friend of
25 years, it was said.
Builder Jones, of Carmarthen, south Wales, denied murder but was convicted by a jury at Swansea Crown Court after 13 hours and 25 minutes of deliberations.
He was remanded into custody yesterday and will be sentenced on a date to be fixed.
The court heard Mr O’Leary was murdered on January 27 this year after being lured to meet Mrs Jones at Cyncoed Farm in Cwmffrwd, Carmarthenshire.
Instead, he found her husband crouched behind a dustbin armed with a rifle, who shot him dead after ignoring his pleas for mercy, the court heard.
He then drove his victim’s car to a riverside, where he sent messages purporting to be from Mr O’Leary to his wife and children, saying: “I am so sorry.”
Jones used a forklift truck to load Mr O’Leary’s body into his wife’s car and took it home, 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 an oil drum.
Jones had said his friend died after the gun went off during a struggle.