A cheating wife and her lover have been sentenced to life imprisonment over a plot to kill her terminally ill husband by shooting him in the face.

Hayley Weatherall, 32, of Molland Lea in the village of Ash, near Sandwich, Kent, cried in the dock as she was handed a minimum sentence of 15 years at Maidstone Crown Court on Tuesday for conspiracy to murder.

Her lover Glenn Pollard, 49, of Church Lane, West Stourmouth, will serve at least 17 years, and his daughter Heather Pollard, 20, of the same address, was handed a minimum sentence of 15 years.

Ray Weatherall
Ray Weatherall leaves Maidstone Crown Court (Gareth Fuller/PA)

Raymond Weatherall, who was diabetic and was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer in August 2015, survived being shot in the face on November 29 last year.

Sentencing the trio, judge Adele Williams said: “This was cruelty of a high degree. Cold, calculated and chilling cruelty.”

Other planned attempts on Mr Weatherall’s life included giving him an insulin overdose and another attempted shooting.