The body of 36-year-old Carol Morgan was found in her shop, Morgan's Store, in Linslade, Bedfordshire, on 13 August 1981.
Allen and Margaret Morgan, who had been in a “passionate, but forbidden and adulterous love affair”, hatched a plan to murder her, their Luton Crown Court trial heard.
Prosecutor Pavlos Panayi KC told the jury the couple, who had been having a year-long affair, made a plan with an unknown killer.
“She was killed on the evening of 13 August 1981 in a brutal attack by someone who has never been identified.
The prosecutor said that at the time of the killing, Mr Morgan, who had married Carol in 1977, had been having a year-long affair with married Margaret Spooner, as she was then known.
Mr Panayi said a divorce was financially out of the question as the couple had debts.
He said that on the night of the killing, Mr Morgan took the victim's two children from her previous marriage to see a double bill at the Odeon cinema in Dunstable Road, Luton.
The court heard this was unusual as he did not have a “strong relationship with the children” and had never taken them out without their mother previously.
“During their absence Carol was alone in the shop. She closed the shop at 6pm. After she closed, an attacker or attackers entered the premises and struck.”
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Allen and Margaret Morgan were having a "passionate" year-long affair, a jury is told.
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