13:29 EDT, 14 April 2021
Garald Corrigan, 74, who lived in a remote part of Anglesey, North Wales, was murdered in 2019 after he was virtually cleaned out having handed £200,000 to a conman who promised to develop his home
A pensioner who was murdered with a crossbow had been virtually cleaned out after handing £200,000 to a farmer conman who promised to develop his home and sell it for £2m, a court heard today.
Richard Wyn Lewis, 50, took thousands of pounds from Gerald Corrigan and his partner Marie Bailey, which he claimed was going towards property development and the purchase of horses, a trial at Mold Crown Court was told.