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A husband accused of conspiring to murder his former wife in 1981 has been found guilty by a jury.
Carol Morgan, 36, was killed in a shop she ran with her husband Allen Morgan in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire.
Morgan, 73, found his wife's body in the storeroom when he returned from taking her two children, then aged 14 and 12, to a cinema in Luton.
His current wife and then lover Margaret Morgan, 75, was found not guilty of the same charge by a jury at Luton Crown Court.
Prosecutors said the cinema trip gave Morgan a "cast-iron" alibi while a paid hitman murdered Carol and robbed the store.
At the time detectives believed Carol had been the victim of a burglary that had gone wrong, but a cold case investigation in 2018 uncovered a new witness who said Morgan wanted to find a hitman to kill his wife.
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