Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Con crook in £200k fraud plea change
A CROOK who conned a couple out of £200,000 before one of them was murdered with a crossbow has now admitted fraud.
Richard Wyn Lewis took cash from Gerald Corrigan and Marie Bailey, which he claimed was for land sales, development of their property and horses.
The 51-year-old, from Holyhead, Anglesey, changed his plea to guilty on the third day of his trial.
He will be sentenced today at Mold crown court.
Prosecutor Peter Rouch KC said: “Wyn Lewis is a conman. He is a fraudster.”
Mr Corrigan was killed with a crossbow outside his Anglesey home in 2019.
His death had nothing to do with the fraud.
Terence Whall was jailed for a minimum of 31 years in 2020 over the murder.