A spotlight rigged up by murder victim Bob Wignall

A spotlight rigged up by murder victim Bob Wignall trapped
his killers after he was lured into the woods by his cheating wife
to be killed, the Old Bailey heard today (fri).

Mr Wignall, 55, a decorator, set up the light so he and wife
Sandra, 48, could see foxes playing in woods which backed onto
their home.

But the light caught Mrs Wignall’s secret lover Terry Bewley
and co-defendant Harold Moult after they committed the murder, it
was alleged.

Three teenage boys stumbled across the murder scene as they
strolled through Sayes Wood, Addlestone, last September 5.

Minutes earlier, they saw two men walking past them in the
darkness.

Richard Vinnicombe, 19, of Orchard Way, Addlestone, Surrey
said the men walked through a spotlight coming from the Wignalls
home in Rowhurst Avenue.

He said: ‘They just walked past and I didn’t take a good look
at them.

I wasn’t really taking too much notice.

‘
But then, they walked through the spotlight, he told the jury.

He added: ‘It enlightened their faces and their shoulders when
they went through it.

‘
As they continued walking through the woods, Richard, his brother
Stephen, 17, and friend Nathan Burkitt, 17, of Horsell near Woking,
came across Mrs Wignall.

Richard said: ‘She was moving around back and forwards from the
path.

She saw us and first of all said ‘stay away, stay back’ and
then we went towards her and she told us that her husband had been
attacked.

‘
He added: ‘She said he had been attacked by three blokes who
had asked her if she had seen a dog.

She pointed towards the
clearing.

‘We tried to go towards her and calm her down and help her out
if we could.

She was shaking.

First of all my brother went round her
and went off to get some help.

Stephen told the court that Mrs Wignall kept repeating: ‘Are you
the three? Are you the three?’
He said Mrs Wignall was ‘hysterical, crying and upset’ and added:
‘She said something about her husband being beaten up.

‘
It has been alleged that Mrs Wignall lured her husband to the
woods and performed a sex act on him to distract while the killers
pounced.

The prosecution claims the twin motives were lust and greed and
Mrs Wignall allegedly wanted to start a new life with Bewley with her
husband’s pnds stlng 21,000 life insurance money.

Mrs Wignall, Bewley, of Trevor Crescent, Ruislip, and Moult, of
Clissold Street, Ladywood, Birmingham, all deny murder.

Nathan told the court that Mrs Wignall refused to let the boys
go near the body after they came across the murder scene.

He said: ‘She was jittery.

As we got closer she told us to keep
away.

‘She said her husband had been attacked while feeding foxes.

We
asked her to show us but she refused.

The trial was adjourned until Monday.

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