Woman who starved millionaire Anthony Sootheran to death jailed for 28 years
A woman who starved her millionaire landlord to death in order to inherit part of his £3.5m estate has been jailed for a minimum of 28 years.
She took up to £300,000 from their accounts, forged both of their wills and isolated her vulnerable landlord by discouraging visitors, prosecutors said.Lynda and Wayne Rickard bought a Mitsubishi Shogun car with some of the money they obtainedA combination of malnutrition and a deep-seated pressure sore led to a fatal lung infection, the court heard.
The defendant previously admitted forging their wills, four counts of fraud over their bank accounts, two counts of conspiring to pervert the course of justice, one of possessing forged documents and one of housing benefit fraud. He told her: "Your greed was such that when you thought Anthony Sootheran might derail you from your gravy train, you murdered him."
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