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Woman and lover jailed for plotting to kill husband so they could continue affair
A woman and her lover who plotted to kill her husband so they could continue their affair have both been jailed for 19 years.
Michelle Mills and Geraint Berry planned to murder Christopher Mills and make it look like suicide. They were found guilty of conspiracy to murder after a trial at Swansea Crown Court in October.
A third person, Steven Thomas, was found not guilty of conspiracy to murder but pleaded guilty to a firearms charge. Police were called on 20 September last year to reports that masked men carrying guns, later found to be Berry and Thomas, had raided a static caravan in Cenarth, Ceredigion.
Despite being badly beaten, Mr Mills was able to fight them off and they fled. Michelle Mills, 46, called 999 to say her husband had a head injury and claimed she did not know the armed men who broke in.
Armed officers and a dog unit responded, and a police helicopter soon spotted Berry, 46, and Thomas, 47, hiding in undergrowth. While searching Berry and Thomas, officers found gas masks and a typed suicide note addressed to Mills purporting to have been written by her husband.
Police quickly established that Mills, of Llangennech in Carmarthenshire, was linked to the plot. Digital evidence revealed she and Berry - a former Royal Marine - had been in a secret relationship for around three months and had discussed ways to kill Mr Mills.
These included killing him with sleeping tablets, suffocating him in his sleep and poisoning him with antifreeze. Berry also looked into how to make his victim's Mini explode on start up.
Police said when Berry told Mills he was meeting with some "boys" to plan "what they are going to do with him.
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