(LONDON TELEGRAPH) — A millionaire farmer, who went missing days before his 70th birthday, was murdered by his wife and her lover when he refused to grant her a divorce after finding out about their affair, a court has heard.
William Taylor, who was known as Bill, disappeared from his home at Harkness Hall in Gosmore, Hertfordshire on June 3 last year with his body being discovered eight months later in a nearby river.
St Albans Crown Court heard how his wife Angela Taylor, 53 and her lover, Paul Cannon, 54, — who had been lodging with the family — became consumed by a “venomous hatred” of the father of four when he refused to end his marriage.
