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Banbury murder-accused cancelled daughter s visits to victim
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image captionLynda and Wayne Rickard are accused of murdering their wealthy landlord
A woman accused of starving her millionaire landlord to death cancelled his daughter s visits and kept her locked out of his home, a court heard.
Anthony Sootheran s body was found at High Havens Farm, near South Newington, Oxfordshire, in March 2014.
Lynda Rickard, 62, isolated and controlled the 59-year-old as part of a plan to steal his fortune, Reading Crown Court was previously told.
She and her husband Wayne Rickard, 66, both from Banbury, deny murder.
Mrs Rickard, who previously lived at the farm, admits forging wills in the names of both Mr Sootheran and his mother, Joy, as well as spending tens of thousands of pounds of their money, the jury has heard.
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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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