'Hubby's list for disposing wife's body' MURDER.A JILTED jilt tr.v. jilt·ed, jilt·ing, jilts To deceive or drop (a lover) suddenly or callously. n. One who discards a lover. husband killed his wife then drew up a list of ways to dispose of To determine the fate of; to exercise the power of control over; to fix the condition, application, employment, etc. of; to direct or assign for a use. See also: Dispose her body, a court heard yesterday. Martin Hale allegedly murdered Maureen, 42, after she demanded a divorce - her body has never been found. Police found the list in his case. Prosecutor Crispin Aylett said: "It listed by sea, by fire, by acid, landsite. He was looking to dispose of her." After she died in 1999, Hale, 51, borrowed a shovel and a car from a worker at his fruit and veg firm, the court heard. He also offered a friend pounds 20,000 to hire an incinerator incinerator, furnace for burning refuse. The older and simpler kind of incinerator was a brick-lined cell with a metal grate over a lower ash pit, with one opening in the top or side for loading and another opening in the side for removing incombustible masses called . Ten months before she vanished from their home in Thames Ditton, Surrey, Hale beat her after finding out she had had a fling, jurors heard. He denied murder at Kingston crown court. The trial goes on. |
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