'Controlling' husband who blasted his wife to death with a shotgun is jailed for life
A 'controlling' and 'abusive' husband who murdered his estranged wife in a drive-by shooting after being ordered to pay a £10,000 divorce bill was today jailed for life. Michael Reader, 70, blasted Marion Price, 63, with a shotgun as she sat in her car outside her home in Earls Barton, Northamptonshire, after spending months tracking her movements. A court heard he carried out the 'cold, calculated murder' because he 'bitterly resented' being told to pay his former partner £10,000 just a few days earlier. Today Judge Adrienne Lucking QC described Reader's crime as a 'cold-blooded exe...