Sarah Williams, 35, is accused of shooting businesswoman Sadie Hartley, 60, in the head with the weapon before slashing at the mother-of-two 40 times.
Prosecutors say Williams and her friend, Katrina Walsh, dreamt up ‘spy novel’ style methods for carrying out the ‘perfect murder’ during the 17 months they spent plotting the attack.
Williams then stabbed unsuspecting Ms Hartley to death when she opened the front door of her £500,000 home in the village of Helmshore, Lancashire in January this year.
Williams, who denies murder, had been seeing Ms Hartley’s partner Ian Johnston, 57, who was out of the country at the time of the attack.
He had ended the relationship with Williams after she became ‘possessive and difficult’, prosecutor John McDermott told the jury today.
Sarah Williams is accused of killing love rival Sadie Hartley in a vicious attack at her Lancashire home
Sarah Williams is accused of killing love rival Sadie Hartley in a vicious attack at her Lancashire home
Prosecutors said Williams had split from Ms Hartley's partner, Ian Johnston, sparking jealousy
Prosecutors said Williams had split from Ms Hartley’s partner, Ian Johnston, sparking jealousy
Preston Crown Court heard that ‘obsessed’ Williams ‘set her mind’ to rekindle her relationship with Mr Johnston and saw Ms Hartley as an ‘obstacle’.
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