Cops Found Her Lover Hiding with a Fake Suicide Note — Then Texts Exposed the Plot to Kill Her Husband By Liam Quinn

A Welsh woman and her lover have been found guilty of conspiring to murder her husband in order to continue their affair.

Michelle Mills and Geraint Berry were both found guilty of conspiracy to murder in Swansea Crown Court on Tuesday, Oct. 21, police in Dyfed-Powys announced. This came after a two-week trial in which “the court heard that Mills and Berry intended to murder Mills’ husband and make it look like a suicide,” per the announcement.

A third person, Steven Thomas, was found not guilty of the same charge but police said he previously admitted to a weapons charge.

On Sept. 20, 2024, Mills called police to report that her husband, Christopher Mills, had been attacked by two masked men who broke into their mobile home, authorities said. Christopher was badly beaten by the two men, later identified as Berry and Thomas, but was able to fend off the attackers, who subsequently fled the scene.

Berry, 46, and Thomas, 47, were arrested after being found hiding in undergrowth near the scene.

While searching the two suspects, police found gas masks and a fake suicide note addressed to Mills purporting to be from her husband, according to authorities.

Mills denied knowing why anyone would attack her husband, but police said they eventually discovered that she was linked to the plot.

Berry and Mills had been in a relationship for about three months prior to the crime, police said, and text messages between the two revealed they began plotting different ways to kill him.

“In a short period of time, Berry, encouraged by Mills, became increasingly occupied by hostile thoughts about her husband, and the pair had communicated a number of ways in which they could kill him,” Dyfed-Powys Detective Inspector Sam Gregory said.

Mills, according to Gregory, said the conversations were just fantasy and that they were never going to be acted on.

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The messages also revealed that two prior plans to visit the mobile home were aborted before the eventual Sept. 20 incident.

After the two men fled the scene, authorities said Mills sent a message to Berry telling him to delete all messages. “Police have been called get away, delete all communications … please on both phones … I love you,” Mills wrote, according to police.

Police added that when Mills was arrested, she said “I’m going to prison for this, aren’t I?”

After the verdict was reached Tuesday, Gregory thanked those who worked on the investigation and gathered evidence to secure the convictions.

“Mills and Barry had plotted not one, not two, but three attempts to take Mr. Mills’ life, and I have no doubt that they would have continued to come up with these plans had they not been caught that night … They will now face the consequences of their actions,” he said.

Mills, Berry and Thomas are set to be sentenced on December 19.