12:57 EDT, 14 April 2021
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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 greed .
The Rickards moved into High Havens farmhouse in the village of South Newington, Oxfordshire, in late 2006.
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