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A woman who planned to murder her husband so she could start a new life with her secret lover has been jailed for 19 years.
Michelle Mills, 46, and her boyfriend Geraint Berry, 47, planned to kill Christopher Mills so they could continue their affair.
Berry also recruited Steven Thomas, 47, to help carry out the attack.
Mr Mills was attacked by Berry and Thomas in a static caravan he shared with his wife on 20 September 2024.
Both attackers were masked, carrying fake guns and carrying gas masks, pliers and cable ties in a rucksack.
Mr. Mills was badly injured, but managed to fight off his attackers and both escaped.
Meanwhile, his wife called 999 to inform that her husband had fallen ill. head injury And she didn’t know who her masked attackers were.
on friday Swansea Crown CourtMr Justice Nicklin Casey sent both of Langennach’s mills to prison, lanelliand Berry, of Clydack, Swansea, were sentenced to 19 years each for conspiracy to murder.
Mills was also given an 18-month sentence to run concurrently with perverting the course of justice. Berry was given the same sentence for possessing an imitation firearm, a charge he had previously pleaded guilty to.
The judge said Thomas, of Blangwynfi in the Afan Valley, had played a “subordinate role” to Berry.
He was given a 12-month sentence for possessing an imitation firearm, to which he had previously pleaded guilty.
Sentencing Berry, the judge said: “Together with Michelle Mills, you planned to kill Christopher Mills.
“You devised the plan and led its execution. You recruited Steven Thomas to assist you and, while intoxicated, you equipped yourself with items that demonstrated your intent to kill Mr. Mills and make it look like a suicide.
“No matter how inefficient the plan was and how unlikely it was to succeed, your intent was to commit murder.”
He said the text messages between Berry and Mills, which Mills deleted but not Berry, were the “chirying reality” of the plan, which was foiled by “the remarkable patience and courage of Mr Mills, who fought you and your partner”.
Addressing Mills, the judge said she had deleted the text messages because she knew “very well” that they were offensive.
He said: “Geraint Berry may have been largely responsible for devising the method but you encouraged him to execute the plan.
“The evidence strongly suggests that in the weeks leading up to the incident, you aroused and took advantage of Geraint Berry’s animosity towards her husband and encouraged her to find a way to get rid of her husband, not in imagination but in reality.”