Daily Mail - 06.09.2019

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TWISTED FANTASIES IN THE WHATSAPP MESSAGES

Paul Cannon: I want to... make love to you on

his kitchen table... soaked in blood, with him

tied to a chair to watch. Then send him to hell.

Cannon: Just watching Kill Bill 2 lol.

Angela Taylor:Think that would kill him, last

thing he saw was us making love xxxxxx

Taylor:One would be nice.

Taylor:U fone that bloke? [about hiring

a hitman]? Can’t keep going on like this.

Cannon: I’m gonna f*** them up [Bill Taylor’s son

Richard and his family] and then him [Bill]. When

I am done I am coming straight round to you

and make love to you while they will be warm.

Cannon: said the cost would be about

£20,000 and he would go halves.

Cannon: He needs to be put down. Will get what

he deserves and I will get his beautiful wife.

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By Colin Fernandez

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I’m watching Kill Bill

Depraved texts of

wife and lover ‘as

they joked about

murdering’ her

husband called Bill

A FARMER’S wife and her lover

exchanged hundreds of twisted mes-

sages in which they discussed sick ways

to murder her estranged husband, a

court heard yesterday.

Angela Taylor and Paul Cannon also dis-

cussed having sex in millionaire Bill Taylor’s

blood, a jury was told.

In a text to his lover about her husband, Can-

non allegedly wrote: ‘He needs to be put down...

Will get what he deserves and I will get his

beautiful wife.’

On one occasion, Cannon, 54, joked: ‘Just watch-

ing [the Quentin Tarantino movie] Kill Bill 2 lol.’

Taylor, 53, replied: ‘One would be nice.’

In another message, two days before Mr Taylor,

69, went missing, Cannon is said to have written:

‘I want to... make love to you on his kitchen table...

soaked in blood, with him tied to a chair so he had

to watch. Then send him to hell.’ Taylor allegedly

replied: ‘Think that would kill him, last thing he

saw was us making love xxxxxx.’

Discussing plans to kill the farmer, Cannon

wrote: ‘We need to get together soon and sort

out a plan. We have got to get him out of the

picture very soon darling.’

The court has heard that Cannon contacted

By Andrew Levy

work colleague Gwyn Griffiths to Angela Taylor: She ‘discussed making love in her husband’s blood’ Bill Taylor: He didn’t want to divorce his wife

find a hitman. In one message,

Taylor asked: ‘U fone that bloke?

Can’t keep going on like this.’

Her lover replied that it would

be about £20,000 and he would go

halves with her.

The shocking exchanges were

among 78 pages of WhatsApp

messages found on Cannon’s

phone by police. The messages,

which began in February last

year – four months before

Mr Taylor disappeared – were

voiced by a male and female

police officer and the recordings

played to the jury.

St Albans Crown Court has

heard that the farmer was ‘loathed’

by his wife and Cannon.

They allegedly drove cars at him,

shouted abuse and set his Land

Rover alight in May last year.

Prosecutor John Price QC said:

‘The content reveals on the part of

Angela Taylor and Paul Cannon a

pervasive, bitter hatred for Wil-

liam Taylor.

‘Often expressed is a desire that

William Taylor should come to

serious harm. On occasions they

say they would have him dead.

‘The language used is frequently

obscene and sometimes verges on

pornographic hyperbole.’

Mr Taylor was last seen at his

home, Harkness Hall in Gosmore,

Hertfordshire, on June 3 last year.

His body was found two miles

away in the River Hiz, near

Hitchin, by a member of the pub-

lic in February this year.

In other messages, Cannon alleg-

edly suggested killing Mr Taylor

with a chainsaw strapped to a pick

axe handle ‘if you really want to

make a mess’.

There were also threats to Mr

Taylor’s son, Richard, from his

first marriage. In one, Cannon is

said to have written: ‘I gonna f***

them up and then him [Bill]. When

I am done I am coming straight

round to you and make love to you

while they will be warm.’

Taylor replied: ‘Too right...’

The jury heard that, responding

to a message about having sex as

their victim’s blood ran down a

non also said: ‘I love you’re a***. I

can’t stop looking at it.’ It

prompted his lover to say: ‘Really,

was better before kids.’

Mr and Mrs Taylor, who met in

1992 and married five years later,

had three children together.

But Mrs Taylor was seeking a

divorce from her husband when

he went missing.

She began a relationship

with Cannon, a farm labourer, in

2017 when he was lodging

for free at Harkness Hall, Mr Price

told the jury. Mr Taylor was

‘angered and distressed’ when he

began to suspect their affair and

refused to grant a divorce

when papers were served on him

in March last year – leading to

‘bitter resentment’ among

the defendants.

Mrs Taylor had previously been

given two nearby farms as part of

a financial settlement when she

filed for divorce in 2014 but her

husband still wanted to be with

her, the Crown says.

When interviewed by police,

Cannon told officers the messages

were ‘no more than fantasy and

banter of an extreme nature’.

Taylor claimed: ‘We have sent

messages out of frustration. Bill

was getting on my nerves. I am

not denying the messages, they

were just between me and Paul.’

But Mr Price added: ‘Is it

then just an unfortunate coinci-

dence that the man whom

they hated, whose death they

desired and planned to bring

about in those messages, did in

fact disappear during the

time they were talking about mak-

ing it happen?’

Taylor and Cannon, both of

Hitchin, deny murder, conspiracy

to murder and arson. Griffiths, 60,

of Folkestone, Kent, denies mur-

der and conspiracy to murder.

The trial continues.

THE HUSBAND

THE WIFE FOUND DEAD

‘Angered and

distressed’

drain, she commented: ‘Man, what

a turn on. I wanna watch the life

drain out of his face.’

Around the time the Land Rover

was set on fire, she wrote: ‘Dar-

ling, you light my fire. Xxxx’ Can-