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‘FANTASIES’ Angela Taylor

‘Wife & lover

plotted to kill

rich farmer’

THE wife of a millionaire
farmer and her lover
swapped messages about
killing him, a court heard.
Paul Cannon, 54, sent a
WhatsApp to Angela
Taylor, 53, saying, “I’ll kill
for you darling,” after the
farmer refused to divorce.
Around 48 hours before
William Taylor, 69, was last
seen alive, Cannon said he
wanted to “get rid of that
poisonous c***”.
He also told her that her
ex should be “put down”.
Mr Taylor’s decomposed
body was found on a
riverbank in February.
Cannon told police the
notes were “fantasy”, St
Albans crown court heard.
The pair, of Hitchin,
Herts, and Gwyn Griffiths,
60, of Folkestone, Kent,
accused of helping, deny
murder and conspiracy.
The trial continues.

BY LOUIE SMITH

FUNDS Teaching assistant

Class helpers

buying basics

for schoolkids

LOW-PAID teaching
assistants are dipping into
their pockets to help fami-
lies buy uniforms, fund
trips and provide lunch
money, a survey claims.
Unison found schools
are even providing emer-
gency supplies of groceries
for struggling families,
with more than one in 10
opening food banks.
Half the 4,500 teaching
assistants surveyed said
more children are arriving
at school hungry.
Teaching assistants earn
around £15,975 a year.
But more than a fifth
said they had bought
uniforms and a similar
number provided PE kits.
Unison’s Jon Richards,
said: “It’s shocking some
parents are so desperate
they’re turning to teaching
assistants for help.”
VOICE OF MIRROR: P

BY MARK ELLIS
Education Correspondent

PERVERT Vanessa George

Worst female paedophile to be set free ‘within days’

BRITAIN’S worst female paedophile Vanessa

George is to be freed from prison within days.

George, 49, abused 64 babies and toddlers at

Little Ted’s nursery in her native Plymouth,

Devon, and then sent snaps to fellow perverts.

She got a minimum seven years in 2009 for

offences that a judge said “plumbed new depths

of depravity”.

George was refused parole in May 2017 but

was told by the Parole Board this July that she

would be released. Now Plymouth MP Luke

Pollard has been told George will definitely be

freed this month – and possibly within days.

He had asked the Ministry of Justice to see if

there were any matters which remained on her

file which could be investigated.

But police said a review had established each

charge available had been put to her and, in

effect, there was “nothing left in the can”.

Mum-of-two George, who sent her pictures of

abuse to paedophile Colin Blanchard, will be

banned from social media and from working

with children. She will also have to live at an

approved address and be barred from visiting

Devon and Cornwall on her release from prison.

Mr Pollard said he hoped lessons will be

learned, including a stronger voice for the

parents and carers of very young victims – who

he said were also victims – and a clearer process

for them to challenge an abuser’s parole.

He said: “We need to look at how the voice of

the victim can be heard and not hampered by a

complex and exhaustive process.”

ANT’S EX FACTOR

Star set for divorce talks so

he can ‘move on’ with his life

Ant is keen on drawing a line

under things and moving on...

He’s in love with Anne-Marie

INSIDER ON I’M A CELEB STAR’S MEETING WITH FORMER WIFE LISA

ANT McPartlin will hold showdown talks

with ex-wife Lisa Armstrong today as

they come face-to-face for the first time

this year in their ongoing divorce battle.

The pair will try to thrash out the details of

their split, which is still rumbling on despite

them being granted a decree nisi last October.

Ant got together with new love Anne-Marie

Corbett three months after he and Lisa split

in January 2018, after an 11-year marriage.

And a source said the I’m a Celebrity host is

desperate to finalise the divorce settlement so

he can build a new life with his former PA, 43.

They said: “Ant is really keen on drawing a

line under everything and moving on with his

life. The meeting is part of that process.

“At the end of the day, he is really in love with

Anne-Marie and just wants to get the divorce

over and done with.”

Ant and Lisa were set to meet last November

at London’s Royal Courts of Justice but he

failed to show and was ticked off by the judge.

And in July this year Strictly Come Dancing

make-up artist Lisa stopped him entering their

former marital home.

ADDICTION

Ant, 43, was said to be stunned Lisa refused

to let him in to take the last of his possessions,

despite repeatedly ringing the doorbell.

Sources close to Lisa, 42, claimed she was

unaware Ant himself was going to turn up at

the house in West London.

But his camp insist she was told he would

attend the mansion where she now lives alone.

Today’s meeting in London will be a chance

to move closer to completing their split.

Our source said: “They are both adults and

it’s hopeful things are resolved soon.”

Ant and Lisa met at a Smash Hits

concert, in Newcastle, in the mid-90s. She

was in pop band Deuce and he was with

I’m a Celeb co-host Dec as PJ & Duncan.

They wed in 2006, with Dec as best man.

Lisa was there after he battled a prescrip-

tion drug addiction and had a stint in rehab.

After they split he crashed his car into that of

a family with a four-year-old while drunk.

Speaking of his new sober life, Ant said:

“Anne-Marie is the fundamental reason for the

great change in my life. She’s been my rock.

She’s a beautiful soul. We’re very happy.”

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TALK TO THE

HAND Ex Lisa is

meeting Ant today

COURTING

COUPLE Ant

& Anne-Marie

at Wimbledon

this year

EXCLUSIVE

BY HALINA WATTS