By Hayley Dixon
A wife who plotted to murder her husband so she could claim his £250,000 life insurance money was caught when the hitman changed his mind and went to the police instead, a court has heard.
Lisa Fairpo’s new lover offered to pay £10,000 to a former paratrooper if he stabbed Andrew Burr to death, stating he did not want him shot because he wanted him to suffer, it was said.
But the plan unravelled when the killer-to-be had a pang of conscience and called the police, the jury heard.
Just two months before the planned attack Mrs Fairpo persuaded Mr Burr to increase his life insurance from £26,000 to £250,000, handing him the broker’s number and offering to pay the premium, Hull Crown Court was told.
She and her husband had seperated and she was having an affair with loan shark Darren Wilson, 45, who she met while she was fostering his son for four years.
The pair planned to teach her husband a lesson for punching her in the eye and blinding her, the court heard.
When asked if there had been discussions about harming him she said: "I might once have said, when me and Andy were really arguing, I'd have maybe said Oh God! I wish Andy wa'nt here!"
She and Mr Wilson, from Hull, both deny conspiracy to murder Mr Burr between January 1 and April 13 this year.
Prosecutor Mark McKone said: "The prosecution says Lisa Fairpo and Darren Wilson intended to kill Mrs Fairpo's husband in order to collect life insurance… They have been together 13 years and married in 2005. Lisa Fairpo was a shopaholic and they had massive debts."
He added: ""In April 2013 Lisa Fairpo offered to pay a £71 premium for increased life insurance from £26,000 to £250,000. In fact £750,000 insurance was discussed by Andrew Burr with his insurance provider.
"Significantly around the same time Lisa Fairpo was arranging for her husband to be well insured, Wilson was making arrangement for her husband to be killed."
But before the plan could be carried out hitman Maikel Ward, 42, fled to London and called the police saying he was unable to go through with it, claiming he had come to his senses and wanted to stop another man going through with murder, a jury was told.
When she was arrested she told police she was heavily in debt and her husband, who she did not love, was violent.
Because of her sight problems Mrs Fairpo is allowed to sit in court wearing dark sunglasses.
Ward has already pleaded guilty to the conspiracy. He said he owed Wilson £1,500 for a debt he could not repay.
Mr McKone said: "Ward did not name of the victim, but Wilson was to ask him (the victim) to quote for a job in an empty house as a painter and decorator. Wilson wanted ward to stab him and said the man was quite old so it would not be a problem.
"Ward, an ex-solder, had suggested a gun would be better, but Wilson said he did not think he could get a gun and he wanted his victim to suffer."
He said Ward he truly believed Mr Wilson wanted someone dead as he had told him he had organised details and that he would be in contact over the next couple of weeks.
The trial continues.
Source: The telegraph
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