The judge described her crime as a “gross violation of the trust that should exist between parents and their children.”
A British woman who murdered her parents and then lived for four years alongside their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home was sentenced on Friday to life imprisonment and told she won't be eligible for parole for 36 years.
Virginia McCullough, who spent her parents' money and went to great lengths to cover her tracks with family and friends through a web of lies, had pleaded guilty to murdering her parents in June 2019 at a previous hearing at Chelmsford Crown Court in southeast England. “I did know that this would kind of come eventually,” she said while handcuffed in body-worn footage captured by police that was released Friday. “It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”After McCullough was arrested on suspicion of double murder she told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy,” adding that “I know I don’t seem 100 per cent evil.”
She had also wrapped the body of her mother in a sleeping bag in a wardrobe on the top floor of the property. Statements from three unnamed siblings of the defendant were read in court by prosecutor Lisa Wilding. Essex Police said documents found at the address built a picture of a woman “trying desperately” to keep her parents from discovering the parlous state of her finances while giving “false assurances” about her employment and future prospects.
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