Richard Bates was paid £4,000 to kill Marilyn Garside in October 2001 on the orders of her husband James.

He wanted her dead to inherit £250,000 from the sale of the Cross Keys pub in Redgrave, near Diss, which the couple owned.

Garside, then of Castle Acre Road, King's Lynn, planned to use the money to live in luxury with his mistress.

Bates fatally stabbed Mrs Garside on the doorstep of her elderly mother's home in Romford, Essex.

Marilyn Garside, who was stabbed to death by a hired killer (Image: EDP Archive) Bates and Garside were both jailed for life after a second trial in May 2005.

They were convicted of murder in 2003 but a retrial was ordered for legal reasons.

The duo were both ordered to serve a minimum of 20 years.

Bates appealed against his conviction but his bid to clear his name was........

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