A farmer strangled his churchwarden father to death and buried him on the family’s land after fearing he was going to give away the farm to someone else, an inquest heard today.
Charles Wright, 52, had a ‘blazing row’ with his father Brian, 82, over the future of Hall Farm, near Newark, Nottinghamshire, before seeing a ‘flash of red’ and throttling him.
In a mobile phone voice note, he said his father – a churchwarden at St Bartholomew’s Church in Langford and who also served on Winthorpe with Langford Parish Council – was ‘thinking of replacing him’ and ‘giving the lion’s share
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