{"id":324676,"date":"2025-12-19T13:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T13:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/324676\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T13:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T13:23:11","slug":"woman-jailed-for-plotting-with-lover-to-murder-her-husband-in-caravan-and-make-it-look-like-suicide-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/324676\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman jailed for plotting with lover to murder her husband in caravan and make it look like suicide | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman and her lover who plotted to kill her husband so they could continue their affair have both been jailed for 19 years.<\/p>\n

Michelle Mills and Geraint Berry planned to murder Christopher Mills and make it look like suicide.<\/p>\n

They were found guilty of conspiracy to murder after a trial at Swansea Crown Court in October.<\/p>\n

A third person, Steven Thomas, was found not guilty of conspiracy to murder but pleaded guilty to a firearms charge.<\/p>\n

Police were called on 20 September last year to reports masked men carrying guns, later found to be Berry and Thomas, had entered a caravan in Cenarth, Ceredigion, and assaulted Mr Mills.<\/p>\n

Despite being badly beaten, he was able to fight them off and they fled.<\/p>\n

Michelle Mills, 46, made an emergency call to say her husband had a head injury and claimed the men responsible were unknown to her.<\/p>\n

A police helicopter spotted Berry, 46, and Thomas, 47, hiding in nearby undergrowth.<\/p>\n

While searching the pair, officers found gas masks and a fake suicide note addressed to Mills purporting to have been written by her husband.<\/p>\n

Police quickly established that Mills, of Llangennech in Carmarthenshire, was linked to the plot.<\/p>\n

\"Michelle<\/p>\n

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\n Michelle Mills and Geraint Berry<\/p>\n

\"Christopher<\/p>\n

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\n Christopher Mills fought off his attackers. Pic: Dimitris Legakis\/Athena Pictures\/Shutterstock <\/p>\n

Digital evidence revealed she and Berry had been in a secret relationship for around three months and had discussed ways to kill Mr Mills.<\/p>\n

Berry had begun making arrangements for someone to shoot him and also looked into making his Mini explode on start up.<\/p>\n

Police said when Berry told Mills he was meeting with some “boys” to plan “what they are going to do with him”, she responded: “Yes, lovely, thank you.”<\/p>\n

The judge at Friday’s sentencing said the masks found indicated the plot they settled on was to gas him.<\/p>\n

\"Gas<\/p>\n

Image:
\n Gas masks and a fake suicide note were found on Berry and Thomas<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

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\n A gun was also found<\/p>\n

Detective Inspector Sam Gregory said: “Berry and Mills had previously discussed using gas to kill Mr Mills, while making it look like he had taken his own life.<\/p>\n

“Berry had asked Mills where the boiler was, and he and Thomas carried gas masks that would have protected themselves while Mr Mills suffocated.<\/p>\n

“No explanation has been given by any of the three defendants for the fake suicide note or the gas masks in the rucksack.<\/p>\n

“What’s clear is that these were not being used to frighten Mr Mills – they were there to set up a fake suicide.”<\/p>\n

Steven Thomas was sentenced to 12 months but will be released immediately due to time on remand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman and her lover who plotted to kill her husband so they could continue their affair have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-324676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}