A cheating husband was finally convicted of plotting the murder of his shopkeeper wife 43 years ago. Allen Morgan was found guilty of conspiring to murder Carol Morgan, who was battered to death by an unknown killer on the evening of 13 August 1981. The couple had previously lived together in Swindon, where Morgan worked as a truck driver and was a football coach.
He found the body of the 36-year-old in the storeroom of Morgan’s Food Fare in Finch Crescent, Linslade, Leighton Buzzard when he returned from the cinema in Luton, 14 miles away, with her two children Dean, 14, and Jane, 12. The brother and sister, now in their 50s, have to come to terms with the fact that Allen, who they called Dad, hatched a plan to kill their mother. The prosecution at Luton Crown Court said the trip gave Allen an “cast-iron” alibi and allowed a paid hitman to murder and rob Carol.
Allen Morgan (Image: Bedfordshire Police) Allen Morgan, a 73-year-old, who walks with a stick, from Stanstead Crescent, Woodingdean, Brighton was remanded in custody by Mr Justice Martin Spencer. He will be sentenced on July 31. His wife and then lover Margaret Morgan, 75, was found not guilty of the same charge and was told she was free to go.
At the time detectives believed Carol had been the victim of a burglary that had gone wrong, but a cold case investigation which began in 2018 uncovered a star witness who revealed that Allen had wanted to find a hitman to kill Carol. Jane Bunting, now aged 60, met the co.