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A carer who deliberately starved her live-in landlord to death to inherit a slice of his multimillion-pound estate was convicted of murder today after his skeletal body was found next to a plate of McDonald's. Lynda Rickard and her husband Wayne moved into a Oxfordshire farmhouse set on 60 acres of land owned by James 'Anthony' Sootheran in 2006.  The 62-year-old cared for his aging mother Joy Sootheran, but despite receiving £47,000 a year in her role, she soon started using the woman's money as her own. Mother-of-three Lynda had previously admitted forging the will of Ms Sootheran, in an ...

A CARER starved her millionaire landowner to death in a bid to inherit his £3.5million fortune after his body was discovered next to a bag of McDonal

Wayne and Lynda Rickard A couple accused of starving their live-in landlord to death in order to inherit a slice of his £3.5million estate - refused to give evidence in their murder trial, instead putting up a "wall of silence," a court heard today. Banbury couple Lynda and Wayne Rickard moved into High Havens farmhouse in South Newington, owned by James “Anthony” Sootheran in 2006 and, with 62-year-old Lynda as the driving force, they planned to defraud his estate and the estate of his elderly mother Joy, a jury heard. Mother-of-three Lynda Rickard had previously admitted forging th...

Wayne and Lynda Rickard A Banbury couple accused of starving their live-in landlord to death in order to inherit a slice of his £3.5million estate - refused to give evidence in their murder trial, instead putting up a "wall of silence," a court heard today. Lynda and Wayne Rickard moved into High Havens farmhouse in South Newington, owned by James “Anthony” Sootheran in 2006 and, with 62-year-old Lynda Rickard as the driving force, they planned to defraud his estate and the estate of his elderly mother Joy, a jury heard. Mother-of-three Rickard had previously admitted forging the w...

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 auctioneer's 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 father's home in December 2013, under the pretence that he did not want to see her - according to his carer Lynda Rickard. On what would have been the last time she saw her father ...