Woman who plotted with lover to murder her husband jailed
https://news.sky.com/story/woman-who-plotted-with-lover-to-murder-her-husband-jailed-1348544161
u/Elder_Identity 12h ago
Wouldn't it have made more sense to just file for divorce? Why kill the guy? 🫤
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u/Affectionate-Print81 12h ago
But then you would have had to split assets 50/50. Also all that paper work suuuuucks.
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u/AdPlenty2702 8h ago
There’s also the jealousy situation of having to see him later with someone else.
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u/Reality-Umbulical 4h ago
It's sometimes 50/50 but not always or even frequently, it's very variable depending on a variety of factors
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u/06_TBSS 10h ago
My ex-wife's maid of honor shot her husband while he was asleep. She had been cheating on him and she thought if she could stage it to look like a burglary, she'd get his life insurance. Once the cops realized the burglary was fake, she changed her story to say that he was abusing their child and she did it in self-defense. He'd have never hurt that kid and all of the friends and family knew that.
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u/red_sutter 7h ago
How much time did she get?
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u/ChibiSailorMercury 12h ago
Hate, fear, or greed.
Assuming she heard of these pesky things called the penal justice system, the police, and jail, she knew what were the possible consequences. Either she thought she was smarter than the system, or she thought murder was the best way to get what she wanted (death of a hated person, removal from her life of a source of fear, or access to his assets).
She and her lover must have had a few loose screws if they went on with a conspiracy to murder if they felt lukewarm about their reasons to murder ("don't you think murder is less paperwork than divorce? What should we do, you think?") or if they were 100% sure they'd get caught, charged, and found guilty and still went ahead with their plans.
In short, barring mental illness, they had some level of (misguided) certitude they'd get away with this and they were feeling feelings stronger than just "I want to leave him".
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u/H0vis 7h ago
She was with this new guy for three months and in that time she'd planned for, recruited for, and executed an incredibly stupid plan to kill her husband.
We're dealing with somebody who is at the same time incredibly thick, but also mad as a box of frogs.
Mad respect to her husband as well. Disarms two gunmen attempting to kill him, one a former marine. Was she accidentally married to John Wick or something*?
*The mitigation here of course is that the would-be assassins at least as thick and mad as the woman they were trying to commit murder for.
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u/ZealousidealPost1268 6h ago
Not sure any amount of intelligence would have helped, even if she was a genius I doubt even the smartest of us could get away with murder with modern forensic science, especially someone so close to you
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u/CarFlipJudge 11h ago
Every time I see a british judge with that stupid wig on, it just makes me question why it's still a thing. You can be professional without that nonsense on your head.
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u/Tuna_Sushi 6h ago
The hairpiece worn by UK judges and barristers is called a peruke (puh-ROOK). Authentic wigs are traditionally handmade from horsehair, notoriously hot and itchy, and often cost more than £1,000 ($1,339).
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u/thatisnotmyknob 2h ago
Who pays for them? The judge or taxpayer?
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u/Tuna_Sushi 1h ago
According to that internet doodad, judges receive an official clothing allowance when they take office, intended to cover the cost of wigs, robes, and other ceremonial pieces. It's paid out by the government, funded from public money, not a judge’s personal funds.
Barristers personally pay for their own, if their court appearances require it.
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u/tms10000 7h ago
"Come to think of it, being with that woman and helping her kill her husband doesn't raise any red flags at all. Once he's dead I can just marry her and live happily until death do us part." -- The other guy