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By Eleanor Barlow, PA
Gerald Corrigan A jury has been discharged in the trial of a man accused of conning the victim of a crossbow murder. Richard Wyn Lewis, aged 50, is alleged to have taken about £200,000 from Gerald Corrigan, who was fatally shot with a crossbow outside his home in Anglesey, North Wales, in April 2019. His trial at Mold Crown Court opened last week but a court spokesman said the jury was discharged yesterday (Monday April 19) due to health reasons. The case has been adjourned to January 10 2022. Lewis, of Llanfair-yn-Neubwll, Holyhead, denies eight counts of fraud and his partner Siwan Maclean, 51, of the same address, denies entering into a money laundering agreement.
Jury discharged in trial of man accused of conning crossbow murder victim out of £200,000
Richard Wyn Lewis denies eight counts of defrauding Gerald Corrigan who was fatally shot outside his remote Anglesey home in 2019
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A jury has been discharged in the trial of a man accused of conning the victim of a crossbow murder.
The case has been adjourned to January 10 2022.
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image captionGerald Corrigan was murdered by a crossbow shot outside his remote home near Holyhead in 2019
A jury in the trial of a man accused of defrauding a man who was later murdered with a crossbow has been discharged.
Richard Wyn Lewis, 50, took £200,000 from Gerald Corrigan, who was killed his home on Anglesey in 2019, Mold Crown Court heard.
Mr Lewis, of Llanfair-yn-Neubwll near Holyhead, had denied eight counts of fraud.
Now it has emerged that the jury in the trial was discharged on Monday owing to health reasons.
The case has been adjourned until 10 January, 2022.