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A HITMAN who boasted of links with Chelsea stars convinced a “vulnerable” woman to marry him while he was serving life.
But Paul Hayter’s bride soon became terrified of him and fled her home when he came for a visit on day release.
Hayter was jailed for 15 years in 2001 after organising the contract killing of baker Mario Commatteo, 48, who was blasted with a shotgun outside his home.
At the time Hayter was in charge of crowd control at Stamford Bridge and acted as a bodyguard for players.
While in HMP Swaleside he struck up a romance with a woman who started chatting to him during a visit to her dad in 2006. He wooed the mum-of-four with tales of his celebrity pals and bombarded her with calls.
But after they tied the knot his bride – whose name is being withheld – quickly tired of his pestering then fled her home as she broke it off.
Charming
A source said: “Hayter was a charming man. He wooed her into a romance and sent her pictures of himself with Chelsea players and celebrities.
“They met in the prison’s visiting area. His bride-to-be was visiting her dad when she noticed him sitting alone.
“She felt sorry for him so she brought him a drink and struck up a conversation. They took it from there.”
Hayter’s wedding certificate lists his address as Brabazon Road, where the Category B prison is, and his occupation as “Heavy Goods Vehicle Driver”.
During a two-hour visit in November 2007 the couple were searched before signing the register in front of 20 guests.
They then enjoyed a buffet of sandwiches and pork pies. A source said: “Hayter didn’t pay a penny for the wedding. His partner brought him a suit she found at Matalan and she wore a £40 dress she’d bought from the market.
“They probably spent around 90 minutes together on their wedding day. The rest was swallowed up by security measures and searches. It wasn’t the CHOCOLATE-lovers face paying 20 per cent more after a post-Brexit price surge.
Top-selling bars such as Snickers, Double Decker, Galaxy, Mars and Dairy Milk are set to cost 10p more this summer.
In the wake of last June’s referendum on the EU, the pound’s fall put up the cost of importing ingredients such as cocoa beans and sugar.
Other sweets are shrinking so shops wedding she had hoped for but he convinced her with love letters and by ringing her all the time.
“At the time she was vulnerable and he preyed on that. He sent her love poems from behind bars and pictures of him with celebrities.”
When Hayter was granted day release in 2008, he travelled to London to stay with his new wife.
But having grown tired of his constant can keep their price tag. One Pounders sweet bags have been reduced in size from 180g to 150g.
Price-marked bars made by Mars and Cadbury – mainly sold at convenience stores and corner shops – are rising from 50p to 60p.
Last week it emerged Mr Kipling and Cadbury cakes, including Cherry Bakewell calls, she fled her home before he arrived, making it clear they were finished. Now she is terrified he will find her and has CCTV monitoring her new home.
It is understood that since he was freed from prison on licence last December, Hayter, 51, has started his own company and lives with a new partner.
The insider said: “Hayter would ring all the time and his bride had enough. She grew tired of his constant claims to and Milk Chocolate Cake Bars, are up to 25 per cent dearer because of the higher costs of key ingredient.
Supermarkets have pledged to do their utmost to resist Brexit-related rises. But inflation has hit a five-year high, rising from 2.3 to 2.7 per cent last month.
Mars, who also make Bounty, said: “We have been absorbing rising costs for some know Chelsea stars, saying he was friends with players like John Terry. He came to the flat one day and she wasn’t there. Now she’s scared for her safety.”
Hayter’s 2001 trial heard he paid Raymond Ryan, 35, £10,000 to kill Mr Commatteo. The hit was funded by the victim’s common- law wife Angela Bristow, 50, who wanted to take over his business and cash in around £140,000 in life insurance. She began telling friends s he hoped he would have a fatal accident and asked if t hey knew s o m e o n e who would kill him.
Hayter found Ryan, who agreed to s h o o t Mr Commatteo at his home in Whyteleafe, Surrey.
Hayter could not be contacted for comment yesterday. time but growing pressures have led us to adjust the price of our price-marked bars.”
Mondelez, the owners of Cadbury, said: “To ensure we keep people’s favourite brands on the shelf and to look after our 4,000 UK employees, we have had to make selective price increases.” Golden Casket, who make One Pounders, blamed ingredient costs for smaller bags. A spokesman for the company said: “To keep a £1 price, something had to give,” it said.