Overview
- On day three at Swansea Crown Court, Christopher Mills described grappling with two masked men who burst into the couple’s caravan late at night in September 2024.
- Police using a helicopter found Geraint Berry and Steven Thomas hiding nearby and recovered gas masks, cable ties, pliers, a telescopic sight and a forged suicide note in rucksacks.
- Prosecutors say texts between Michelle Mills and Berry discussed killing methods including antifreeze in gravy, foxgloves in salad, smothering and drugging, preceding a staged break‑in after two aborted visits.
- A £124,000 life‑insurance policy naming Michelle Mills as sole beneficiary had recently taken effect, which the prosecution cites as a financial motive.
- All three defendants deny conspiracy to murder; Berry and Thomas have admitted possessing imitation firearms with intent to cause fear, and Michelle Mills also denies perverting the course of justice and has called the discussions a fantasy, with jurors told she said after arrest, “I’m going to prison for this.”