A terminally ill man is hoping to beat cancer so he can reunite with his wife after she plotted to have him shot, poisoned and blown up on their wedding anniversary.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED?
Ray Weatherall‘s wife Hayley, 38, schemed with her secret lover – who was also his best friend of 20 years – to kill her devoted husband in a wild series of plots, all of which he survived. Powell’s daughter Heather was also involved.
She and Glenn Pollard were both jailed for life after he endured being shot in the face, a swimming pool heater explosion and a plan to end his life with sleeping pills and insulin.
The father-of-seven, who has terminal brain cancer, still has the bullet scar and second degree burns to remind him of the incidents.
SHE IS THE REASON FOR HANGING ON
But more than five years after she was caged Mr Weatherall says he is ‘hanging on’ until Hayley is released in nine years time, and has ‘totally forgiven’ her.
Despite his condition, he still takes 200-mile trips every month to see her in HMP Bronzefield, in Ashford, Surrey – and is looking forward to throwing a ‘big party’ when she is finally out.
HIS WORDS
‘My aim is to survive long enough so Hayley can be released from prison and she can come back home,’ he told the Mirror. ‘This house is as much hers as it is mine. I can’t wait to have her back. I should’ve been dead years ago.
‘It’s a miracle I am here. My aim is to see her walk through that door. I will stay alive long enough for that. People say I’m mad but I don’t care. I visit her each month and we kiss and hug and it is lovely.
‘Hayley was brainwashed. She was a fool. She has always been easily led astray. And she’s serving a life sentence for that stupidity. But I blame my old friend Glenn entirely.’
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Mr Weatherall says he doesn’t ever want to see his ex-best friend again, and he won’t be invited to Hayley’s release party.
He and Pollard had been pals for more than 20 years and went shooting together.
The husband bought his wife Christmas presents to enjoy in prison just months after she was jailed.
