Man guilty of murdering 74-year-old Gerald Corrigan with a crossbow to be sentenced

A martial arts expert convicted of fatally shooting a retired lecturer with a crossbow is due to be sentenced.

Terence Whall, 39, will be jailed at Mold Crown Court on Friday for the murder of Gerald Corrigan, 74, who was shot as he adjusted a satellite dish outside his home in Anglesey in the early hours of Good Friday, April 19, last year.

After Whall was convicted on Monday following a trial, judge Mrs Justice Jefford told the jury of six men and six women she would be passing a sentence of life imprisonment but would have to fix a minimum term.

Whall, a sports therapist originally from east London, denied ever meeting Mr Corrigan, who died in hospital on May 11.

But the court heard he hid outside the father-of-two's remote home and waited for him to leave after the Sky signal was interfered with.

The crossbow bolt passed through the pensioner's body causing serious internal injuries and bruising his heart before shattering a bone in his arm as it left his body.

The GPS system from Whall's state-of-the-art Land Rover Discovery, which was found burnt out in a disused quarry on June 3, showed he had been in the area of Mr Corrigan's home, near South Stack, at the time of the shooting and on the previous night.

Whall initially told police he was at home on the night Mr Corrigan was shot but, when the GPS showed he was not, he said he was in the area because he was having a sexual encounter with friend Barry Williams.

Mr Williams denied the claims.

Following the conviction, Mr Corrigan's partner Marie Bailey, 64, called for Whall to reveal why he carried out the murder.

She said: "To that sad, twisted, broken soul who murdered him, I say if you have an ounce of humanity, any sense of decency, then you would tell us now why you have done this."

North Wales Police said a parallel fraud investigation was ongoing after claims the couple handed over £250,000 to convicted fraudster Richard Wyn Lewis.

Whall, along with co-defendant Gavin Jones, 36, will also be sentenced for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice for plotting to set fire to the Land Rover.

Jones's brother Darren Jones, 41, and Martin Roberts, 34, will be sentenced for the arson of the car, which they pleaded guilty to partway through the trial.