Pensioner ‘hired hitmen to kill wealthy partner’

A pensioner who worked on TV show The Bill offered hitmen £250,000 to kill his partner of 30 years so he could spend her inheritance on his young lover, a court heard. David Harris, 68, allegedly tried to hire three assassins to murder Hazel Allinson, who also worked on the police drama, after blowing his money on gifts and hotels for his new girlfriend, Ugne Cekaviciute. The Old Bailey heard he provided details of her movements to and from her…