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Killer wife jailed for 20 years 'Executioner' wife gets life term
(about 7 hours later)
A woman guilty of murdering her husband will "serve every day of her 20-year sentence," a judge has said. A County Armagh woman has been told she will serve at least 20 years in prison for murdering her husband.
Jacqueline Crymble, 35, and her lover Roger Ferguson, 31, killed her husband, Paul, three years ago outside Richhill. Ferguson was jailed for 18 years Jacqueline Crymble, 35, and her lover Roger Ferguson, 31, killed her husband, Paul, three years ago. Ferguson was jailed for at least 18 years.
Colin Robinson, a friend of Ferguson who was convicted of assisting an offender, was jailed for three years. Father-of-two Mr Crymble was found with a plastic bag round his neck, and his feet and hands bound on 20 June 2004.
The father of two was discovered with a plastic bag round his neck, and his feet and hands bound on 20 June 2004. The judge said Crymble, who had denied the murder, was like an "executioner" who had acted "without mercy".
His wife had claimed four masked men broke into the family home looking for drugs and money before attacking and kidnapping her 35-year-old husband. Neither Crymble, of Edenkennedy Way, Markethill nor Ferguson of Cabragh Road, Tandragee showed any emotion as they were sentenced.
During the trial, a jury heard four months of evidence but took just under three-and-a half hours to reach its verdict. During the trial, Mrs Crymble had claimed four masked men broke into the family home looking for drugs and money before attacking and kidnapping her 35-year-old husband.
Dawn Ferguson, who gave them a false alibi, was given a conditional discharge. Like an executioner you and Roger Ferguson put a black bag over his head, sealed it around his neck, watched as he struggled to breathe and waited for him to die Mr Justice McLaughlin
During sentencing, Mr Justice McLaughlin told Armagh Crown Court the murder was both "shocking and wholly malicious".
He told Crymble she was "guilty of the ultimate act of treachery."
He said: "Like an executioner you and Roger Ferguson put a black bag over his head, sealed it around his neck, watched as he struggled to breathe and waited for him to die.
"The cruelty implicit in what you did defies belief."
'Rot in hell'
Turning to Ferguson, he said any suggestion that he killed because he was "ensnared by Crymble" was false.
Paul Crymble's body was found on Father's Day"It is hard to think of a less likely image of a murderer," he said.
He said Ferguson became "besotted by Jacqueline Crymble and the reality of easy sex and the prospect of a life of comparative luxury led to your downfall."
Colin Robinson, 21, of Riverside Apartments, Gilford, who was convicted of assisting an offender, was jailed for three years.
His mother, Dawn Ferguson, 57, from Tandragee, who gave them a false alibi, was given a conditional discharge.
Speaking outside the court, Crymble's sister Nicola Cree said she would "never forgive" her.
"Justice has been done today - well, all the justice that we are going to get in this country."