Jury out in canal execution case

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A jury has retired to consider its verdict in the case of a woman accused of using money given to her by her ex-husband to arrange his execution.

Yvette Luffman, 40, and former lover Wayne Briscoe, 40 are alleged to have used £1,000 from a divorce settlement to have Simon Luffman killed.

They have denied murder at a three-week trial at Birmingham Crown Court.

Mr Luffman was shot dead on a canal towpath in Bramcote, Nottinghamshire on 19 October 2003.

Shot four times

Doorman Thomas Convery, 34, was convicted of his murder in 2004 and was jailed for life.

Mrs Luffman, of Revesby Way, Boston, Lincolnshire and Mr Briscoe, of Harewood Avenue, Bulwell, Nottingham deny agreeing to pay Convery £30,000 to carry out the shooting, using £1,000 as part of the first payment.

The money was part of a £4,000 settlement agreed by the couple following the collapse of their marriage the previous year, the trial heard.

Mr Luffman was shot twice in the back and twice in the head.