A man found guilty of plotting to murder his then wife more than 40 years ago has been jailed for life with a minimum of 22 years.
Allen Morgan, 74, was sentenced at Luton Crown Court on Monday.
The man had been having an affair with his current wife – Margaret Morgan, 75 – when his former wife Carol was found hacked to death at the grocery shop they both ran in Linslade, Bedfordshire, on 13 August 1981.
He was unanimously convicted by a jury of conspiracy to murder in June.
Margaret Morgan – who left her husband and moved in with Allen Morgan after Carol’s death – was also charged for conspiracy but was later acquitted.
Officers originally believed Carol was the victim of a burglary gone wrong as her husband took his two stepchildren to the cinema in Luton to see a double bill on the day she was killed.
But a cold case investigation in 2018 uncovered a witness, who was 17 years old at the time, who linked Allen Morgan to the killing.
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An unknown attacker struck around 7pm that day and Carol was killed inside the store room after she closed the shop.
The killer, who has never been identified, used a heavy weapon to hack at Carol, causing fatal injuries to her body and skull, the court was told.
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