Sports therapist, 39, found guilty of murdering elderly man with crossbow
Terence Whall shot Gerald Corrigan with a crossbow bolt as he adjusted a satellite dish outside his home on Good Friday.
Monday 24 February 2020 15:43, UK
A 39-year-old sports therapist has been found guilty of murdering an elderly man with a crossbow outside his home in Anglesey last year.
Terence Whall, from Bryngwran, was also convicted of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice alongside co-defendant Gavin Jones, 36, for planning to set fire to Whall's Land Rover Discovery.
It comes after Jones' brother Darren Jones, 41, and his friend Martin Roberts, 34, pleaded guilty to arson in relation to the vehicle during the trial.
Whall, a martial arts expert, shot 74-year-old Gerald Corrigan with a crossbow as he was working to adjust a satellite dish outside his house in North Wales on Good Friday last April.
The retired lecturer of photography and video died in hospital three weeks later.
He had suffered severe internal injuries in the incident after the crossbow bolt passed through his body, bruised his heart and shattered a bone in his arm.
It is not clear why Mr Corrigan was the target of the attack; however, jurors were told the victim and his partner Marie Bailey, 64, had earlier given £250,000 to a convicted conman, Richard Wyn Lewis.
Both Whall and Jones were arrested at Mr Lewis' home in May last year following a reported dispute about money.
The former had been seen visiting Mr Lewis' house on several occasions in the lead-up to his arrest.
Prosecutors say the connection between Whall and Mr Lewis "may be of significance" in the case, but that there was no evidence connecting them before the crossbow shooting.
A GPS analysed from Whall's burned-out Land Rover showed his vehicle had been in the area of Mr Corrigan's home both on the night of the murder, and the night previously.
But Whall claims he had never met Mr Corrigan and was in the area to meet for a sexual encounter with a friend, Barry Williams.
This was a change from his previous account of being at home on the night of the incident, and Mr Williams has also denied the claim.
Whall also admitted to owning a crossbow but said he had sold it months earlier - and the new one he had ordered had not been delivered.
Mr Corrigan had lived in Anglesey for more than 20 years after moving over from Lancashire when he retired.
He had been a carer for his partner, who has multiple sclerosis, until his death.