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| Jail for murder bid millionairess | Jail for murder bid millionairess |
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| A businesswoman has been jailed for eight years for plotting to kill her former partner and his partner. | |
| Ann Hunter, 50, from Chiswick, west London, was found guilty of persuading her boyfriend Anton Lee to find a hitman to murder Colin Love, 54. | Ann Hunter, 50, from Chiswick, west London, was found guilty of persuading her boyfriend Anton Lee to find a hitman to murder Colin Love, 54. |
| Hunter denied the charge, but pleaded guilty to soliciting Lee to commit grievous bodily harm on Judith Love. | Hunter denied the charge, but pleaded guilty to soliciting Lee to commit grievous bodily harm on Judith Love. |
| Lee, 44, of Stanmore, Middlesex, was jailed for four years after pleading guilty to soliciting murder. | Lee, 44, of Stanmore, Middlesex, was jailed for four years after pleading guilty to soliciting murder. |
| During sentencing, Hunter was told by the judge that she was callous and manipulative and had used her besotted lover to achieve her aims. | |
| The childhood sweethearts met on the Friends Reunited website | The childhood sweethearts met on the Friends Reunited website |
| The prosecution said Hunter could not accept the end of her 22-year relationship with Mr Love, the father of her two children. | |
| She sent a series of abusive emails to Mr Love and developed an "uncontrollable hatred" for his new wife, the court heard. | She sent a series of abusive emails to Mr Love and developed an "uncontrollable hatred" for his new wife, the court heard. |
| Things came to a head when Mr Love married the teenage sweetheart he had met again through the Friends Reunited website. | |
| In court it was said Lee, who had initially been Mr Love's accountant, went along with the plan to kill Mr and Mrs Love. | In court it was said Lee, who had initially been Mr Love's accountant, went along with the plan to kill Mr and Mrs Love. |
| Undercover policeman | |
| But when they approached a man they believed to be a hitman, they did not know they were talking to an undercover policeman, who was alerted after a tip-off. | |
| Hunter was said to have changed her mind after meeting him and handed over £5,000, with £5,000 to follow. She said she only needed Mrs Love maimed - for her to be blinded or put in a wheelchair. | |
| Using the name Ann Hunter-Love, Hunter was an executive with major companies including Unilever before leaving to become managing director of a company making Tommee Tippee baby products in Northumberland before her arrest. | |
| Mr Love, who used to run an internet company and who lectures at universities, said he found it "almost impossible to believe that an intelligent and gifted woman would contemplate such a plan". | Mr Love, who used to run an internet company and who lectures at universities, said he found it "almost impossible to believe that an intelligent and gifted woman would contemplate such a plan". |
| He added: "This was a very serious offence which has been shown by the sentence handed down by the judge. | |
| "But this is a very unusual case - we don't get many of them." |