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July 31st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda - Charlotte Collinge, 45, told friends she would get her husband Clifford’s house and money by ‘any means whatsoever’
- Collinge lured Stephen Shreeves, 40, and Kelvin Dale, 27, to her house with the promise of sex but then told them she wanted her husband dead
- Collinge jailed for a minimum of 23 years while Reeves and Dale both sentenced to 18 years in prison
By
Suzannah Hills
06:10 EST, 31 July 2012
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08:05 EST, 31 July 2012
A cheating wife has been sentenced to life in prison after recruiting two men she met in a bar to murder her wealthy husband to get his £1million fortune.
Charlotte Collinge, 45, took two men back to the £400,000 house she shared with her husband Clifford Collinge, 17 years her senior, with the promise of sex.
As they approached the detached property, she told the pair – Stephen Shreeves, 40, and 27-year-old Kelvin Dale – that she ‘hated’ her husband, and asked if they knew anyone that could kill him.
Caroline Collinge, left, took two men back to her house on the promise of sex, so they could kill her husband of 14 years Clifford, pictured right. Once they got to the house she told both men she wanted her husband dead
Once there, the men launched a savage attack on the 61-year-old retired newsagent which left him with 46 separate injuries.
Collinge, who was out of the house at
the time buying cocaine, returned to the house in Mansfield,
Nottinghamshire, to find her husband lying in a pool of blood – but
stepped over his body instead of calling an ambulance.
Help was only summoned half-an-hour later by a worried friend of 44-year-old Collinge who she had spoken to on the phone.
Prosecutors said that if there had not been a delay in dialling 999, Mr Collinge may have survived.
Following a four-week trial, a jury of
five women and seven men found Collinge, Shreeves and Dale guilty of Mr
Collinge’s murder.
Collinge was today jailed for a
minimum of 23 years, while Stephen Shreeves, 40, and Kelvin Dale, 27,
were each jailed for 18 years.
Kelvin Dale (left) and Stephen Shreeves (right) were both found guilty of the murder of Clifford Collinge at Nottingham Crown Court
Sentencing the trio at Nottingham
Crown Court, the judge, His Honour Mr Justice Colman Treacy, said: ‘The
killing of Clifford Collinge in his own home was a truly shocking
offence.
‘On the evidence I have heard, I’m
satisfied he was a man who offered no harm to any of you and who indeed
had, over a number of years, tolerated the wilful and manipulative
behaviour of an unfaithful wife.’
Judge Mr Justice Treacy told Collinge
she was the ‘instigator’ of the attack, which took place in the village
of Warsop last October.
He added: ‘You caused the killing for your own selfish reasons.
‘There is evidence to show that for a
period of time prior to his death, you wanted the prompt termination of
the life of your husband. I am sure a factor in motivation was gain for
yourself.’
During the trial, prosecutor Peter
Joyce QC told the court that the couple, who had been together for 17
years in total, had a rocky relationship peppered with break-ups and
reconciliations, and divorce had been discussed.
The trial heard that on the day of the
killing Collinge, who had a string of lovers, told a close friend: “I
can’t take any more of him.
‘I’ve had enough of Cliff. The only way to get him out of my life is to kill him.’
Hours later she started flirting with strangers Shreeves and Dale in a wine bar and persuaded them to return home with her.
When police arrived at the scene after the attack, Collinge was heard to say: ‘Oh God, I think I have killed him.’
Nottinghamshire Police has issued a picture of a clamp that was used in Clifford Collinge’s murder
But she quickly claimed she had no
idea Mr Collinge was going to be attacked, and had returned to find him
lying injured. She told jurors she failed to call an ambulance because
she was ‘in shock’.
In the weeks leading up to the killing, Collinge had moved out of the marital home to live with a 21-year-old ‘toy boy’.
Jurors were told that despite her
unfaithfulness, Mr Collinge continued to send his wife money and allowed
her to return home after she claimed her younger lover had beaten her
up.
But just a week before his death,
Collinge had talked of killing her husband with sleeping pills and
making his death look like an accident.
Peter Joyce QC, prosecuting, told the
jury: ‘The deceased was a man of some wealth. Friends of the couple
thought that Charlotte Collinge was using the deceased.
‘She would speak openly about gaining
access to his home and money, stating: ‘I’ll have that house. I will use
any means whatsoever to get it’.’
The court heard that in the event of
Mr Collinge passing away, his estate would be split between his wife and
two children, Julie Bowles, 34, by his first marriage, and Cristal, 16,
who was his daughter with Collinge.
Collinge would have got the £400,000
marital home, a cash payment of £250,000, all of his belongings and half
of future rents from other properties he owned. The total would have
been around £1million.
Jailed: Collinge was jailed at Nottingham Crown Court for a minimum of 23 years while Shreeves and Dale were both sentenced to 18 years
In a statement read to the court after
the verdicts, Cristal, who now lives with her boyfriend’s family, said
her father was ‘generous and caring’.
She added: ‘My dad meant everything to me. We went everywhere together.
‘He was the best kind of father anyone
could have. If I had problems he would always be there for me. He
called me ‘Princess’. He was my hero.’
Following the sentencing today, Mr Collinge’s daughter, Julie Bowles, said outside court: ‘We are truly devastated that we will never again see our dear old dad smile, and that he will miss out on watching his beloved grandchildren grow up.To have a child ask why their grandad had to die and not know the answer myself is beyond words.
‘Forty-six injuries in his own home. We are in complete shock and disbelief that this has happened to our dad.
‘The knowledge that our father was forced to suffer in the way he did, as arranged by someone whom, against all the advice from his friends, he supported for so long, is an unspeakable burden of knowledge to now have to carry through our lives.
‘I believe Shreeves and Dale were caught up in the premeditated actions of Charlotte. But they, along with her, must now face the consequences.’
Steve Gad, a friend of Mr Collinge’s,
said: ‘Cliff loved her right until the very end. He loved her to pieces.
It was his undoing.
‘She took the life of a loving father.
Quite callously and absolutely, deliberately, with no thought for
anyone else except herself.
‘Her only motive was financial gain. She obviously didn’t love him – because she was telling everyone she didn’t love him.’
Speaking outside the court, Temporary Superintendent Kate Meynell, from Nottinghamshire Police, said: ‘I think the sentences today would reflect the severity of the attack on Clifford Collinge.
‘It was a horrible attack, it was planned by his wife and she recruited two men earlier in the evening to carry out the attack and they’ve received the justice that they deserved.
‘Charlotte Collinge has come across as an extremely cold and calculating woman. She obviously took Clifford Collinge for all she could get. He was besotted with her and she took advantage of that and carried on doing that until she killed him.
‘It’s our belief and the prosecution case that she did this to try and get money. She wanted a divorce, she wanted access to his house, he didn’t want to sell the house and she thought this was the only way to get what she wanted.’
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Those 2 idiots who did that for her either need their brains tested or an eye test. Seriously what a piece of mess and what a evil evil greedy monster.
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Throw away the key. How awful.
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Throw away the key. How awful.
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18 years for murder? Lock em up for life and make it 4 to a cell,plenty of room in prisons then.
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When she eventually gets out, will she be entitled to still have what was in the will? Surely this was a gain by crime so hopefully she will get nothing !!
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Horrid woman. I hope she dies in prison too.
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I have 2 words for her evil witch
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What is this country becoming?
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why only 18 years for the blokes that actually took this mans life???? What possible reason is there for them not staying in prison for the rest of their lives?
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So— 18 years for murder–sorry 9 years as they will only serve half– what a joke sentence
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