A terminally ill man hopes to beat cancer so he can be reunited with his wife – even as he plans to have her shot, poisoned and blown up on their wedding anniversary.
Ray Weatherall’s wife Hayley, 38, plots with her secret lover – who is also her best friend of 20 years – to kill her devoted husband in a series of plots, all of which he survives. Powell’s daughter, Heather, also attended.
He and Glenn Pollard were both jailed for life after being shot in the face, exploding a pool heater and plotting to end their lives with sleeping pills and insulin.
The father of seven, who has terminal brain cancer, still has bullet scars and second degree burns to remind him of the incident.
But more than five years after she was locked up, Mr Weatherall said he was ‘hanging on’ until Hayley was released after nine years, and had ‘forgiven her for everything’.
Despite his condition, she still makes the 200-mile trip every month to see him at HMP Bronzefield, in Ashford, Surrey – and is looking forward to throwing a ‘big party’ when he finally gets out.
“The goal is to live long enough so that Hayley can be released from prison and she can come home,” he told the Mirror. ‘This house is as much his as mine. I can’t wait for her to come back. I should have died years ago.
Ray Weatherall’s wife Hayley, 38, plots with her secret lover – who is also her best friend of 20 years – to kill her devoted husband in a series of plots, all of which he survives. Powell’s daughter, Heather, also attended. Image: Mr Weatherall in 2018
More than five years after she was locked up, Mr Weatherall said he was ‘hanging on’ until Hayley was released for nine years, and had ‘forgiven her for everything’. Image: Together before prison
He and Glenn Pollard (pictured) were both jailed for life after he suffered a gunshot to the face, an exploding pool heater and plans to end his life with sleeping pills and insulin.
‘It’s a miracle I’m here. My goal is to see him walk through that door. I will stay alive long enough for that. People say I’m crazy but I don’t care. I visit him every month and we kiss and hug and it’s great.
‘Hayley has been brainwashed. He was stupid. He always gets lost easily. And he is serving a life sentence for that stupidity. But I blame my old friend Glenn for everything.’
Mr Weatherall said he never wanted to see his former best friend again, and that he would not be invited to Hayley’s release party.
He and Pollard have been friends for more than 20 years and have taken pictures together.
The previously loyal wife stunned viewers with her forgiveness – buying her husband a Christmas present for jail just months after he was jailed.
A family friend told the Mirror that he wanted to give her perfume, but liquids were not allowed in the prison chose Boyzone CD.
Although the judge called Mrs Weatherall ‘cold and calculated’ and ‘impatient’ for her husband to die, her husband claimed she was ‘made out to be worse than him’.
Ray had been told he had months when Heather, named Arthur, shot him in the face like a ‘sniper’ after several failed attempts on his life.
Mr Weatherall said he never wanted to see his best friend again, and that he would not be invited to Hayley’s release party.
Despite his condition, she still makes the 200-mile trip every month to see him at HMP Bronzefield, in Ashford, Surrey – and is looking forward to throwing a ‘big party’ when he finally gets out. Image: Visiting him in prison in 2019
The father of seven, who has terminal brain cancer, still has bullet scars and second degree burns to remind him of the incident. Image: X-ray of Raymond Weatherall’s jaw, with bullet visible
They include a swimming pool heater explosion that left him with second-degree burns, drowning while fishing and insulin poisoning.
Mr Weatherall remains unaware that his wife and best friend of 20 years tried to kill him after planning a new life together.
In that trial, Maidstone Crown Court told the non-fatal shooting triggered a long and complicated investigation by Kent Police, which uncovered a string of other unsuccessful attempts on the man’s life, planned before and after the shooting.
Shortly after they were arrested, Mr Weatherall told Good Morning Britain that Glenn had been the main instigator of the plot, and that his wife was ‘dragged into it’.
She said: ‘I am disgusted with Glenn and his daughter. Glenn has always been an all around driver. I hate that my husband is involved in everything.
“It was probably two or three months before I realized what was going on. He started to get a little cold towards me.
‘You never got into any trouble. I still don’t know how he got involved in it all.’
The plot began to unravel in January after Ray’s niece, Emma Worsfold, told police she tried to kill Ray, after finding out about the affair.
Mr Weatherall remains unaware that his wife and best friend of 20 years tried to kill him after planning a new life together.
Shortly after they were arrested, Mr Weatherall told Good Morning Britain that Glenn had been the main instigator of the plot, and that his wife had ‘dragged him into it’
Kent police raided his home and quickly recovered the bolt-action rifle used to shoot him.
Electrical equipment was analyzed and hundreds of messages were found between Glenn and Heather, including about how they planned to kill his love rival.
The jury was also told of another life-threatening event for the victim between the summer of 2017 and the spring of 2018, which involved only accidents.
Mr. Weatherall was blown up when the burner exploded, he was set to drown during a fishing trip with Pollard, and the incident was suspected of poisoning.
Glenn Pollard got life with a minimum of 17 years while the other two were jailed for life with a minimum of 15 years.
Heather Pollard was seen laughing in the dock with her father before the sentence was handed down.
Jurors heard the treachery Pollard had a gun license and ‘brainwashed’ his daughter – who is Mr Weatherall’s niece – to fire the ‘sniper’ shot last November.
He was shot in the face at Sandwich Marina in Kent but survived when the bullet hit his right cheekbone.
Ray had been diagnosed with brain cancer in August 2015 and the following year was given only 18 months to live on daily insulin injections for diabetes.
