Overview
- Swansea Crown Court sentenced Michelle Mills, 46, and Geraint Berry, 47, to 19 years for conspiracy to murder, with Mills also receiving a concurrent 18 months for perverting the course of justice and Berry 18 months for possessing an imitation firearm.
- Prosecutors said the pair planned the killing during a secret affair and sought to benefit from a £124,000 Help For Heroes life insurance policy in Christopher Mills’s name.
- Berry and Steven Thomas attacked Christopher Mills at the couple’s Cenarth caravan on 20 September 2024 with imitation handguns, gas masks and cable ties, but he fought them off before they fled.
- Key evidence included thousands of messages between Mills and Berry, some deleted from her phone but retained on his, a forged suicide note sealed with Mills’s DNA, and a rucksack of attack gear recovered after the raid.
- Thomas was acquitted of conspiracy to murder but jailed for 12 months for possessing an imitation firearm, with police finding him and Berry hiding in bushes after a helicopter search.