"And you go, 'okay, well that's not what everyone has told us?! Mr Howker also said Susan Edwards and her husband had lived an 'isolated' life which had made her 'vulnerable and naive' for her age. A week after the discovery of the remains, the investigation turned into a murder inquiry. They did not live a lavish lifestyle, but instead splashed out thousands of pounds on Hollywood memorabilia, including signed photos and autographs of Gary Cooper, and stamps featuring Frank Sinatra. EasyJet launches huge March sale with flights to Europe for under 20 Indeed, they thought it was most likely that Mr Edwards - a former gun club member - had been the one who fired the shots from the .38 revolver which killed them both. The man was described as being aged between 25 and 30, about 6ft 2in tall and with a slim build. It was found the next day in a Basford garden. Follow the latest news for Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, England, UK - Local news and information in your area. A knife found nine days later in a ditch in Radcliffe Road provided the only clue when traces of blood and Mr Wilson's suit were discovered in its sheath. They were found guilty in 2014, with the judge calling Susan "an accomplished liar and a fantasist". We are based in Mansfield. The house in Blenheim Close and (inset) Susan Edwards and Christopher Edwards. In another twist, the court heard that letters Christopher believed the couple had been receiving from actor Gerard Depardieu were actually written by his wife. The benefit is paid every four weeks, either on a Monday or a Tuesday - and there is no limit to how many children a parent or guardian can claim for. The irony was that the Edwards didn't even succeed in paying off their debts. An old part of Forest Town known as The Avenues is the high-density housing built as homes for the workers from the nearby Crown Farm Colliery (also known as 'Mansfield Colliery'), once a . Read tagging guidelines. Susan said she found her father on the floor in her parents bedroom and her mother holding a revolver. The second set of remains belonged to a well-built white woman, who was aged 40 or older. His 32-year-old wife was also injured in the attack. After hearing the evidence the judge said 'I have come firmly to the view it is my duty to stop the case because no jury, properly directed by me, could possibly return any verdict other than a verdict of not guilty'. The 25-year-old had moved out of his family home just a few weeks before his body was found by a neighbour at his new flat in Chiltern Way, Bestwood. Just over three hours later, his body was found in the driver's seat at the former Gedling Colliery sports field in Lambley Lane. Within the space of a few weeks, a former mining community was rocked by two gruesome killings, completely separate but just a few miles apart. Please could you notify the UK Border Force at Lille Europe so that they may expect us.". Of course, they'd already been dead and buried for 13 years. Christopher shot Patricia and William Wycherley twice with a Second World War revolver inside the back bedroom of the victims' semi-detached home. Find Ryedale homes, property for sale and to let including houses, flats, bungalows, detached, semi-detached, terraced, town house, and cottages. With the Wycherleys gone, the Edwardses set about covering up their cold-blooded crime in a deceit which would last 15 years. In 2011, Mr Wycherleys niece received a Christmas card from Susan insisting that her father was having his second youth. A police officer was out in a marked vehicle when a Toyota Yaris failed to stop in Leeming Lane, Mansfield Woodhouse, shortly before 8.30pm on Monday, February 27. She went back home, but returned the following weekend, this time with her husband - and stopping on the way to buy fish and chips. Enter the tag you would like to associate with this record and click 'Add tag'. She had been bludgeoned to death. She and Christopher had been living in a rented flat in Dagenham, east London, but in 2012 had moved to Lille in France. He and his family had only lived in Sherwood Street for the previous five months. He had been wearing paint-stained decorator's overalls, a brown leather jacket and a dark pon-pon hat. Note: The naming of a defendant within this catalogue does not imply guilt Date: 1976-1980 Held by: The National Archives, Kew: Former reference in its original department: 1156/76: Legal status: Which was, indeed, what had happened. 1752 The Moot Hall was erected by Henriette Cavendish Holles (d. December 1755), Countess of Oxford and Mortimer, then Lady of the Manor. He had been in bed with his wife at the time of the attack and it was thought that Kevin Childerley had been asleep when the first of seven heavy blows struck him. "They didn't lead a particularly lavish lifestyle," Det Ch Insp Rob Griffin, of the East Midlands major crime unit, told the BBC. There was also a 20,000 signed photograph of Sinatra. But officers searching for where the knife was bought or who it belonged to drew a blank. "Later on today we are going to surrender ourselves to the UK Border Force Authorities at the Eurostar terminal at Lille Europe station," it read. But what police discovered would eventually reveal a shocking story of greed, deceit and murder. Edwards, with the help of her husband Christopher, murdered her parents in order to plunder their bank accounts, splurging thousands on celebrity autographs and other Hollywood memorabilia. [1] Before 1907 the village was known as Hucknall-under . He added: "She had no-one in her life but her husband and she will therefore serve this prison sentence without any prospect of a visit from anybody. Mr Watson, 24, of Top Valley, died soon afterwards at the Queen's Medical Centre from a single gunshot wound. If you have information about any of these cases please get in touch with us on 101.. Susan and Christopher Edwards shot Patricia and William Wycherley and buried them at the Wycherleys' home in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, in 1998. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. Now Oscar-winning actor Colman, 47, is taking the lead role in a four-part Sky series written by her husband, Ed Sinclair, about the murders. NEIGHBOURS of Patricia and William Wycherley believed the couple had left their sleepy village near Mansfield but really they were dead and buried in a shallow grave in their own back garden.. "The discovery in their former garden last week may be the reason why. They had lived in a terraced house in Sherwood Street, Mansfield Woodhouse. A free pneumonia vaccine was turned down in December 2006. However, she denied that she was prepared to lie about the 32-year-old man. In 2014, Susan and Christopher Edwards were found guilty of the murder of Susans parents, whom they shot and buried in the couples back garden. She said that she heard Kevin Childerley's wife say, 'What have you come here for?' 1729 Mansfield's first workhouse was built on Nottingham Road. Convicted: Robert Black (Serial killer) 2. Three days later, on Saturday, November 2, the pair appeared at Nottingham Magistrates Court charged with the murder of Patricia and William Wycherley. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. Over the years, Notts detectives have searched at a number of locations for his body, including at Maize Farm, in East Heckington, Lincolnshire, in February 2013. Subscribe now for regular news, updates and priority booking for events, All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated, DPP - Records of the Director of Public Prosecutions, DPP 2 - Director of Public Prosecutions: Case Papers, New Series, More information about the Freedom of Information review process, About our The 62-year-old's attacker walked into Yeomans Army Stores, in Mansfield Road, at about 2.15pm on Friday, July 26, 1991 and hit her around the head with something like a hammer or a bottle. At London's Criminal Appeal Court her barrister, David Howker QC, said the term did not take enough account of mistreatment she claimed to have suffered at her father's hands, which he argued was a 'slow-burning' form of provocation. In March 2014, during an appearance at Nottingham Crown Court, Susan and Christopher Edwards admitted for the first time that they had buried the Wycherleys in the garden of the house in Blenheim Close. However, the prosecution insisted that the Edwardses had both been present on that fateful weekend and it was most likely that, as a former gun club member, Christopher himself had fired the shots from a Second World War vintage .38 revolver. WHILE the motive for Sheila Egner's murder seemed clear, who the killer was still remains a mystery. She said that the caller hung up when she answered the phone. It was a warm night and Mr Wilson wore a suit. They were each handed a life sentence with a minimum of 25 years. The 19-year-old, of St Ann's, was chased from a city takeaway to the Two in the Bush pub, in Radford on Sunday, November 30, 1997. It was also noted that Kevin Childerley's brother Vernon Childerley was himself also murdered in 1977 in Woodhouse Road, Mansfield although a man was convicted for that. He went on to add that the only evidence linking the 21-year-old man to the murder was that of Kevin Childerley's wife and noted that the whole case hinged on her memory, stating that after recovering from her injuries, she had had no recollection of the events to enable her to identify her assailant or assailants, even if they were known to her. Kevin Childerley's wife also said that her accusation that the 32-year-old man was the attacker was based on a 'gut feeling in my heart'. Six men accused of his murder were acquitted and the trail to Mr Thompson's killers seems to have gone cold. Check our listings here. Susan insisted she had shot Mrs Wycherley after extreme provocation, claiming, She said I was an unwanted child, and said her mother also knew she had been abused by her father as a child. The overall crime rate in Mansfield Woodhouse in 2021 was 60 crimes per 1,000 people. "In the days that followed, we started to see that perhaps it was all true, and that was confirmed when we started the excavation in the garden and discovered Patricia and William were there.". If the record can be opened, it will be made available for public access and for copies to be made. This included the proceeds of the sale of the house in Blenheim Close, sold in 2005 for 66,938 using a false signature. "Its staggering to think that's what they spent their money on, but that's what they did.". The UKs bestselling monthly subscription magazine. They would regularly travel from their own home in Dagenham, east London, up to the house near Mansfield to maintain the garden. A jury of eight women and four men took six hours to convict unanimously Susan and Christopher Edwards of murder. Yet when they gave themselves up from their home in France, the couple had just one euro between them. It is possible that only parts of the record can be opened. In his evidence, Christopher said he had agreed to bury his in-laws because he believed his wifes story and didnt want to throw her to the wolves by going to the police. Despite the breakthrough, the e-mail still posed a difficult problem for the police. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. When she was accused of lying, she said, 'What am I going to gain by putting an innocent man down, because that means the real man is still about. Carlisle United 0-4 Mansfield Town. She had been struck with a flat instrument. In the early hours of the following morning, the 33-year-old would be stabbed 87 times. They acted as if her parents were still alive. The babysitter said that she was woken up by the sounds of Kevin Childerley's wife screaming and Kevin Childerley's moaning. It's thought that the Wycherleys had kept an inheritance from Susan's step-grandmother that was meant for Susan, and the murders were part of a dark plot to reclaim the cash. They thought that Christopher Edwards had also been present on that weekend when the Wycherleys were killed. It should have been her day off. Ms Godfrey was attacked and raped in her own home A man has been jailed for life after admitted raping and battering an elderly woman to death. 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Kevin Childerley was found dead when the police arrived, and it was reported that his wife had certainly been left for dead. FOURTEEN years on from James Brodie's disappearance, his body is yet to be found. He usually met up with a business friend but as he was on holiday, Mr Stevens went alone, telling his wife he was going to the Albert Hotel. In fact over just two years, Christopher Edwards spent 14,000 on mementos of movie star Cooper. The version of events told by Edwards, now 56, was all but identical to that told by her husband Christopher. It was the horrified stepmother who went to the police at the start of October 2013. Earlier this year, familial DNA was used to identify the suspected Golden State Killer, a man thought to have committed multiple rapes, murders and burglaries across California in the 1970s and .