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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, both deny murdering William and Patricia Wycherley. | |
At Nottingham Crown Court, they pleaded guilty to 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 | 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. | 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. | 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 pleaded not guilty to two charges of murder between 1 and 5 May 1998. | |
On Friday, they admitted burying the bodies in the garden at Blenheim close between 2 May and 10 May 1998. | |
They also pleaded guilty to a further charge of stealing a credit balance from a Halifax Bank account between 4 May 1998 and 31 October 2013. | |
They are due to go on trial for murder on 4 June. | They are due to go on trial for murder on 4 June. |
A former neighbour of the dead couple said they "kept themselves to themselves...and never went out a lot". | |
Brett Wilson told BBC News: "They didn't have a car…. and they didn't mix at all. You would never see them chatting to neighbours." | |
He added: "After a while you just used to see them behind the curtain - like a shadow." |