A controlling and abusive husband who murdered his estranged wife in a drive-by shooting after being ordered to pay a £10,000 divorce bill was today jailed for life.
Michael Reader, 70, blasted Marion Price, 63, with a shotgun as she sat in her car outside her home in Earls Barton, Northamptonshire, after spending months tracking her movements.
A court heard he carried out the cold, calculated murder because he bitterly resented being told to pay his former partner £10,000 just a few days earlier.
Today Judge Adrienne Lucking QC described Reader s crime as a cold-blooded execution , while the 63-year-old victim s son described him as a vile monster .