Michael Hillier and Rachel Fulstow face years behind bars
A former couple who plotted to murder a dad-of-two before he was shot dead and covered in acid have been found guilty of murder.
After they returned home, the net closed in. Hillier was arrested. Fulstow was treated as a witness at first but later became a suspect, after she repeatedly lied to officers during her interview. Hillier, of Ecclesall Road, Sheffield, and Fulstow, of Andrew Drive, York, will be sentenced tomorrow . Mr Smith was a former soldier who ran his own business, LPS Electrical and Build Ltd.
The court heard Fulstow met Liam Smith on dating app Tinder and the pair went on a date in York in 2019, when she said they had "non-consensual sex" at a hotel in York. She did not describe it as rape and said she went for lunch with the victim the following day, the court heard. Hillier, who told the court he was concerned in the production and distribution of a large-scale cannabis operation, said they had both planned the attack on Mr Smith after Fulstow disclosed she had been "graphically raped" by him.
The court heard Mr Smith was lured out of his house at about 6.40pm by Hillier, who shot him in the face before pouring acid onto his face and body, followed by soda crystals. Fulstow's phone showed she had made internet searches Mr Smith's electrical company and Mitsubishi Shogun cars, like the one used by Hillier and later burned out.
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