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| Couple admit burying parents in Mansfield back garden | Couple admit burying parents in Mansfield back garden |
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| A woman and her husband have admitted burying her parents in the back garden of their home nearly 16 years ago. | A woman and her husband have admitted burying her parents in the back garden of their home nearly 16 years ago. |
| Susan Edwards, 55, and her husband Christopher, 57, had denied murdering William and Patricia Wycherley at an earlier court hearing. | Susan Edwards, 55, and her husband Christopher, 57, had denied murdering William and Patricia Wycherley at an earlier court hearing. |
| Both pleaded guilty to charges of obstructing the coroner in the execution of his duty and theft of a credit balance. | Both pleaded guilty to charges of obstructing the coroner in the execution of his duty and theft of a credit balance. |
| The Wycherleys vanished from their home in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, in 1998. | The Wycherleys vanished from their home in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, in 1998. |
| Arrested at station | |
| Police launched a murder investigation after two sets of human remains were recovered from the garden of the home in Blenheim Close, Forest Town, last October. | Police launched a murder investigation after two sets of human remains were recovered from the garden of the home in Blenheim Close, Forest Town, last October. |
| Post-mortem examinations showed both had been shot. | Post-mortem examinations showed both had been shot. |
| Nottinghamshire Police said DNA testing had formally identified the remains as those of Mr and Mrs Wycherley, who would now be 101 and 79 respectively. | |
| The accused, of no fixed address, were arrested at St Pancras International station in London on 30 October last year. | |
| At a hearing at Nottingham Crown Court in February the couple each pleaded not guilty to two charges of murder between 1 and 5 May 1998. | |
| They are due to go on trial for murder on 4 June. |