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| A gardener has been found guilty of murdering his lover in woods after he found out she was seeing another man. | A gardener has been found guilty of murdering his lover in woods after he found out she was seeing another man. |
| The body of Linda Casey, 54, of Coulsdon, south London, was discovered in Banstead Woods, Surrey on 13 August. | The body of Linda Casey, 54, of Coulsdon, south London, was discovered in Banstead Woods, Surrey on 13 August. |
| Peter Ling, 50, from Wallington, south London, had admitted killing her with a lump of chalk but denied murder. | Peter Ling, 50, from Wallington, south London, had admitted killing her with a lump of chalk but denied murder. |
| He told the court he had been provoked by Ms Casey, after she teased him about his sexual inadequacy, and should have been facing a manslaughter charge. | He told the court he had been provoked by Ms Casey, after she teased him about his sexual inadequacy, and should have been facing a manslaughter charge. |
| The prosecution said Ling attacked Mrs Casey, who was a horticultural lecturer, after he finding out she had been seeing another man. | |
| The court heard that Ling met Mrs Casey, who had been having an affair with married Ian Tolfrey since 2002, in 2007 at her evening classes at Sutton College, south London. | |
| Mrs Casey was estranged from her second husband and ran her life and lovers on a "relatively strict schedule", the jury was told. | |
| John Coffey QC, prosecuting, said: "Her romantic life was less than straightforward. She was conducting affairs with two men at the same time. | |
| "It is clear that Mrs Casey kept her two lovers in ignorance of each other. It is also clear that she strongly preferred Mr Tolfrey to the defendant." | |
| Ms Casey's naked and partly decomposed body was found on 13 August by police tracker dogs, five days after she was reported missing attacked. |