Breaking news: Killer couple to serve a minimum of 25 years in jail

The daughter and son-in-law of reclusive Forest Town couple Patricia and William Wycherley will serve a minimum of 25 years behind bars.

Christopher and Susan Edwards were sentenced today after being found guilty of murder on Friday.

The jury of eight women and four men took just under six hours and twenty minutes to reach the guilty verdicts.

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Susan (56) and Christopher Edwards (57) had claimed that Patricia Wycherley had murdered her elderly husband in a late night row in the back bedroom of their home, and had then been shot by Susan Edwards, who admitted manslaughter.

They said that Susan had then returned to London and brought her husband back to Mansfield the following weekend and told him of the deaths.

He had agreed to help her dispose of the bodies and joined her in profiting in over £250,000 in benefits, pensions and savings over the next 15 years - finally fleeing to France when they realised the game was up.

But prosecutors said that the Edwards had concocted the plan together - travelling to Mansfield in May 1998 and shooting Patricia (63) and William (85) in cold blood, before burying them in the garden that same weekend.

They said that they were motivated by money and jointly set up new bank accounts, diverting cash out of accounts belonging to the Wycherleys and then closing them down.

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