Carer and her husband starved their 17-stone live-in landlord, 59, to death, court hears
12:57 EDT, 14 April 2021 19 shares A carer and her husband 'starved' their live-in landlord to death in a bid to inherit his £3.5 million estate, a jury heard on the second day of their re-trial. The skeletal body of James 'Anthony' Sootheran, who once weighed 17 stone, was found on March 18, 2014, in his bedroom in Oxfordshire. Lynda, 62, and Wayne Rickard, 66, were arrested and jointly charged with murdering the 59-year-old former auctioneer's clerk. Today, the couple watched as prosecutor Oliver Saxby QC told a jury at Reading Crown Court that the case is 'casual, opportunistic gre...
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