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12:00 EDT, 26 April 2021 A doctor was left horrified after finding the body of her grossly thin millionaire patient next to a doughnut in an unusually tidy room at his £1.8million farmhouse, a murder trial has heard.   Lynda Rickard, 60, and her husband Wayne, 64, isolated their friend James Anthony Sootheran in his remote home and starved him to death in order to inherit a slice of his wealthy estate in South Newington, Oxfordshire, a prosecutor alleged today. General practitioner Dr Hila...

Banbury murder-accused cancelled daughters visits to victim Published image captionLynda and Wayne Rickard are accused of murdering their wealthy landlord A woman accused of starving her millionaire landlord to death cancelled his daughters visits and kept her locked out of his home, a court heard. Anthony Sootherans body was found at High Havens Farm, near South Newington, Oxfordshire, in March 2014. Lynda Rickard, 62, "isolated and controlled" the 59-year-old as part of a plan to steal his fo...

Landlord James Anthony Sootheran The daughter of a millionaire landlord found starved to death had been turned away by his controlling carer the final time she tried to visit him, a jury heard. Retired auctioneers clerk James Anthony Sootheran weighed 17 stone in his younger years, but his malnourished body was found on March 18, 2014. A jury heard on Friday how the 31-year-old had been banished from her fathers home in December 2013, under the pretence that he did not want to see her - a...

12:48 EDT, 16 April 2021 The daughter of a reclusive millionaire landlord was turned away by his carer when she arrived with a Christmas gift three months before he was found starved to death, a murder trial heard today.  The skeletal body of James Anthony Sootheran, 59, who once weighed 17 stone, was found in his squalid bedroom on March 18, 2014 at his farm in South Newington, Oxfordshire.  Lynda, 62, and her husband Wayne Rickard, 66, were arrested and jointly charged with murdering the...

13:26 EDT, 15 April 2021 14 shares A millionaire landlord held captive in a foul, unhygienic cell was found starved to death after a controlling carer wanted a slice of his wealthy estate, a jury was told today. Lynda and Wayne Rickard moved into a farmhouse at High Havens Farm, South Newington, Oxfordshire, set on 60 acres of woodland owned by James Anthony Sootheran in 2006. The couple planned to defraud his estate and the fortunes of his elderly mother Joy, the court heard.  Lynda, 62, ...

Wayne and Linda Rickard at court A millionaire landlord held captive in a "foul, unhygienic cell" was found starved to death after a controlling carer wanted a slice of his wealthy estate, a jury was told today. Lynda and Wayne Rickard moved into High Havens Farm, South Newington, owned by James “Anthony” Sootheran in 2006 and planned to defraud his estate and the fortunes of his elderly mother, Joy, the court heard. Greedy Lynda Rickard had previously admitted forging the will of 92...