A mum who bought a house where two murder victims were buried in the garden has told how no flowers would grow over the spot where the bodies lay.
For seven years Sue Bramley remained unaware of her home’s dark past and was baffled as all her bedding plants, lawn seed and turf died.
Eventually she installed a patio, where she and her family would sunbathe and enjoy barbecues together.
Then police searching for previous owners Patricia and William Wycherley, both missing, arrived to dig up the slabs.
And they unearthed the couple’s corpses in a 3ft-deep grave.
Dad 'lived with bodies of murdered mum, children and family dog for weeks'
Blood-soaked house of horrors 'where teenage boy, 17, was decapitated' by gangsters
They had been killed for their money and buried by their daughter Susan and her husband Christopher Edwards, who were both convicted of the 1998 double murders and jailed for life.
The heart-rending case is being dramatised in a four-part Sky TV series, with Oscar winner Olivia Colman as Susan Edwards.
Nurse Sue, 51, fears that her home will be a magnet for ghoulish sightseers when Landscapers is screened this year.
But she said: “I have no intention of leaving.”
She recalled her shock when police, acting on a tip-off, started digging up her back garden in 2013 and told her: “We have found human remains.”
Mum finds out neighbour is convicted paedophile – but police say 'keep it secret'
Sue, who moved to the house at Forest Town, Notts, in 2006 with daughter Sophie, 20, said: “I went to pieces after seeing them taken away in body bags.
“I was so upset to think that those two poor old people had been buried in my garden for all that time.
“We went away for the weekend and by the time I got home on Monday the police had filled in the hole and removed their tents, so the garden was almost back to normal.
“Detectives eventually confirmed that Mr and Mrs Wycherley had been killed in my bedroom.”
Sue recalled seeing the police teams digging around where Sophie had lain a flower bed.
“I watched in horrified fascination as their sniffer dogs focused on that particular patch of garden by the back door, where oddly we’d never been able to grow flowers or plants,” she said.
“Also I thought of how my four-year-old nephew used to bury his toy cars in the garden and his five-year-old sister would then have to try to find them.
“I was aghast at what they could have found.”
The police believe that gun fanatic Christopher Edwards, 57, shot his in-laws at point-blank range with a Second World War .38 revolver as his wife Susan, 56, looked on.
After burying their victims in the back garden, the evil couple pretended that Patricia, 65, and Bill, 83, were alive to steal £300,000 in their names. They kept up the pretence for 15 years.
Using forged documents, they sold the Wycherleys’ house, claimed their £800-a-month pensions, took out loans by posing as the dead couple and filched disability benefits.
Childless Susan, once a police civilian clerk, replied to letters and cards written by relatives to her parents – signing off as them. She and her husband were both convicted and sentenced in 2014 over the murders.
Even though Sue now knows the full ghastly truth about her House of Horrors, she insists: “I love it here.”
She has planted a bush on her patio in memory of the murdered couple and said: “What was done to the Wycherleys was awful and no one deserves to die like that.
“I often think about them – but this has never deterred me from living here. It is a lovely house and I like the area.
“The Wycherleys did us no harm and I’m not scared of living in this house, even though what happened to them was terrible.
“Obviously it was a massive shock when the police found their bodies under my patio but that hasn’t put me off staying here.m
Source: Read Full Article