A husband who hired a hitman to murder his former wife while he was having an affair was jailed for a minimum of 22 years.

Carol Morgan, 36, was killed in a “frenzied attack” inside the shop she ran with her husband Allen Morgan in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire.

The hitman, who has never been identified, used an axe or machete to kill her in August 1981, before escaping with cash and cigarettes.

Morgan was found guilty of conspiring to murder following a trial, but his current wife and then lover, Margaret Morgan, 75, was found not guilty of the same offence.

The couple had been living together in Brighton when police launched a cold case investigation into Carol Morgan’s death in 2018.

Imposing a life sentence at Luton Crown Court, Mr Justice Martin Spencer said only Morgan knew the identity of the hitman.

"That is the secret you have harboured for the last 40 years," he said.

The law has now caught up with you... but the murderer remains at large, if indeed he is still alive.

"There is only one wicked person in this courtroom and that is you, Mr Morgan."

The judge's sentencing remarks can be read in full at: https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/r-...

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