A woman murdered her parents and buried them in their back garden with the help of her husband – then told their neighbours and relatives they had moved to Ireland for the ‘good air’, a court heard.
William and Patricia Wycherley were each shot twice before being wrapped in bedding and ‘stacked’ one on top of the other under the lawn.
Their debt-laden daughter Susan Edwards, 55, and her husband Christopher, 57, buried them on a bank holiday weekend in 1998, the court heard.
Burying them and stealing from their bank account, while tricking relatives into thinking the couple were still alive
They then covered the grave with plants and spent the next 15 years tricking family members, neighbours, doctors and financial institutions into believing the Wycherleys were still alive.
Meanwhile they ‘cleaned out’ their bank accounts and continued to steal their pension and benefit payments, the court was told.
When they realised the net was closing in, the pair relayed a ‘carefully hatched and rehearsed story’.
Christopher Edwards claimed his wife shot her mother after Mrs Wycherley, 63, boasted about sleeping with him. Mrs Edwards told police her 85-year-old father had abused her as a child.
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