Woman Uses Home Loan To Hire Assassin
“RATE cut demand as property prices slide,” says the Times’ front-page warning.
Little need to refurbish that rundown two-bed flat to sell or rent, especially now that everyone’s got one. But what else to do with the DIY money?
Says the Mail’s headline: “Woman took out £4,500 home improvement loan to pay for a hitman to kill husband.”
In Assassination, Assassination, Assassination, Phil and Kirsty catch up with Zoe Kenealy, who is looking at ways to spend the cash she was loaned by a finance firm to install a new bathroom.
The money instead went to her lover Lee Waite – who lived next door with his wife Marie (more on his home later). Mr Waite may well be a dab hand at grouting, but the money was to arrange her husband Timothy’s murder for £10,000.
Thus, still short of the required sum, Kenealy tried to raise the remainder. Sadly for her, if not for her husband, she was turned down for loans by two other firms – Northern Rock and Tesco Personal Finance. Such is the knock on effect of the credit crunch.
At the Old Bailey, Waite escaped with a caution after agreeing to testify against Kenealy.
During the trial, Kenealy said she only wanted her husband “out of the way” and plotted to hire a hitman to frighten him into moving out. She said: “Tim loved me too much. He smothered me.”
Having been found guilty of soliciting to murder, Judge Gregory Stone QC remanded her in custody and warned her she faces prison when sentenced next month.
At which point she will move into a compact and bijou starter studio flat with handily place toilet and bathroom facilities…
Posted: 9th, April 2008 | In: Money, Tabloids Comment (1) | TrackBack | Permalink
