GUILTY UK - Carol Morgan, 36, murdered in her sweet shop, Leighton Buzzard, 13 Aug 1981 *Arrests in 2019*

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Carol Morgan murder: Allen Morgan jailed for plotting to kill former wife more than 40 years ago

Allen Morgan, 74, is found guilty of conspiracy to murder Carol Morgan in June. He was having an affair when his then wife was found hacked to death at the grocery shop they ran in Linslade, Bedfordshire, in 1981.

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Allen Morgan, 74, is found guilty of conspiracy to murder Carol Morgan in June. He was having an affair when his then wife was found hacked to death at the grocery shop they ran in Linslade, Bedfordshire, in 1981.

A man found guilty of plotting to murder his then wife more than 40 years ago has been jailed for life with a minimum of 22 years.

Allen Morgan, 74, was sentenced at Luton Crown Court on Monday.

 

[mewmew]

I think his second wife is a very lucky woman.
Jmo, moo

Why do you say that?

 

[mewmew]

Carol Morgan murder: Allen Morgan jailed for plotting to kill former wife more than 40 years ago

Allen Morgan, 74, is found guilty of conspiracy to murder Carol Morgan in June. He was having an affair when his then wife was found hacked to death at the grocery shop they ran in Linslade, Bedfordshire, in 1981.

news.sky.com

Allen Morgan, 74, is found guilty of conspiracy to murder Carol Morgan in June. He was having an affair when his then wife was found hacked to death at the grocery shop they ran in Linslade, Bedfordshire, in 1981.

A man found guilty of plotting to murder his then wife more than 40 years ago has been jailed for life with a minimum of 22 years.

Allen Morgan, 74, was sentenced at Luton Crown Court on Monday.

It very much annoys me that Margaret was acquitted. I would think that she knew about this plan, seeing as she was with Allen when he asked Ms. Bunting if she knew of anyone who could kill his wife. I also wonder why it took so long for Bunting to tell investigators about that incident. Perhaps they threatened to harm her if she spoke up? Who knows. Also disappointing that Allen hasn’t told who the murderer was. Vile man.

JMO

 

[Bluebear15]

It very much annoys me that Margaret was acquitted. I would think that she knew about this plan, seeing as she was with Allen when he asked Ms. Bunting if she knew of anyone who could kill his wife. I also wonder why it took so long for Bunting to tell investigators about that incident. Perhaps they threatened to harm her if she spoke up? Who knows. Also disappointing that Allen hasn’t told who the murderer was. Vile man.

JMO

This is why i think she's a lucky woman.

 

[tes1984]

This is why i think she's a lucky woman.

Will she run his appeal?

Or change name and disappear into the woodwork?

 

[mewmew]

This is why i think she's a lucky woman.

Ah, now I understand!! Yes I must agree!

 

[AcbMurders]

Bedfordshire Police makes TV appeal for Carol Morgan killer

Detectives want to hear from people who visited certain pubs in the 1980s.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[tes1984]

I wondered when they were going to start looking for the killer.

 

[tes1984]

Local gossip said Allen Morgan was involved.

He said he was just a small town shopkeeper, without any criminal contacts.

 

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Feb 8th 2025

How a 17-year-old girl cracked a brutal murder after 43 years

Carol Morgan was murdered in a frenzied attack in the corner shop she owned on a sleepy council estate in Linslade, Bedfordshire, in August 1981.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

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13/02/2025 rbbm

https://www.beds.police.uk/news/bedfordshire/news/2025/02-february/linslade-cold-case-murder-to-feature-in-itv-documentary-the-real-unforgotten/

''The story behind the 1981 murder of Carol Morgan in Linslade forms a two-part documentary airing on ITV this month.

The Real Unforgotten, a fly-on-the-wall true crime series beginning next Tuesday (18 February) at 9pm on ITV1 & ITVX, delves into the meticulous investigative work of the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Major Crime Unit on their six-year reinvestigation of Carol’s brutal murder, which took place in the storeroom of the Linslade shop she ran with her husband Allen Morgan.''

''Catch The Real Unforgotten on ITV1 and ITVX on Tuesday 18 and 25 February at 9pm. Both episodes will be available to stream on ITVX from Tuesday 18 February.
Anyone with information about this case, known as Operation Markdown, can view and submit via the Major Incident Public Portal.''

 

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Inside 'worst ever crime scene' after frenzied killer split mum's skull in two

ITV documentary The Real Unforgotten retells the harrowing 1981 murder of Carol Morgan and how cold case detectives finally found the shocking truth about her husband Allen Morgan

www.mirror.co.uk

Allen Morgan, 74, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 22 years
''It was a crime scene so gruesome that even experienced police officers were shaken.
And even decades later, cold case detectives were disturbed by the photos showing the shop storeroom where Carol Morgan was bludgeoned to death. Carol, 36, was found hacked to death in the shop she ran with her husband Allen in Linsale, Beds, in August 1981''

''One report, from the local paper, stated: "In a bid to shock the public into action, police have revealed how the killer rained blows down from a razor sharp cleaver onto his victim's head, splitting her skull in two in a frenzy.

"They turned over her body and carefully sliced five long cuts across her face." Her skull was shattered by 10 to 15 blows in an attack so savage that detectives would later describe it as "overkill."

 

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At 74, Allen was convicted for conspiracy to commit murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, with a minimum term set at 21 years and 325 days. Margaret, however, was acquitted of the charge.

The actual perpetrator, who used an axe or machete to attack Carol, has eluded capture.

Prosecutor Pavlos Panayi remarked in court, "We do not know who they eventually found. That man may never be brought to justice."

Inside 'horrific and ferocious' murder of Carol Morgan explored in The Real Unforgotten

The Real Unforgotten is a two-part documentary airing on ITV

uk.style.yahoo.com

 

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It very much annoys me that Margaret was acquitted. I would think that she knew about this plan, seeing as she was with Allen when he asked Ms. Bunting if she knew of anyone who could kill his wife. I also wonder why it took so long for Bunting to tell investigators about that incident. Perhaps they threatened to harm her if she spoke up? Who knows. Also disappointing that Allen hasn’t told who the murderer was. Vile man.

JMO

It's a very strange case. The discussion between AM, MM and Ms B is what encouraged the CPS to prosecute, yet the jury decide that MM knows nothing of any murder plan.

The jury seem to think AM hires a hitman, without telling MM. MM doesn't put two and two together, even when Carol is murdered. Somehow she doesn't recall the recent pub conversation about killing Carol by insulin injection or car accident.

Pure speculation... but in theory, what's stopping MM from having hired a hitman herself (without telling AM her plan) or from being the actual killer? What was her alibi? She worked mentoring troubled teenagers, so might well have known more juvenile delinquents than AM did.

 

[tes1984]

AM was convicted of conspiracy to murder, not of murder.

I wonder if this opens the door for other potential 'husband did it' murders.

I think of a couple of UK cases, where the husbands were also having affairs, and also whisked their new ladies off on holiday very soon afterwards.

 

[MsMiniSleuth]

His alibi was that he was at the cinema the whole evening with the two children. Yet the later witness swears he saw him driving towards the shop in Linslade just before the time of the murder.

I was expecting it to be raised was he with them the whole time or did he leave them for a period during the 4 hours they were in the cinema?

 

[tes1984]

His alibi was that he was at the cinema the whole evening with the two children. Yet the later witness swears he saw him driving towards the shop in Linslade just before the time of the murder.

I was expecting it to be raised was he with them the whole time or did he leave them for a period during the 4 hours they were in the cinema?

Great questions.

The case for the CPS seems to have been based around the 17 year old female witness, rather than the male Linsdale witness.

The children were certainly old enough to recall if their step dad slipped away for a couple of hours. Not sure how legalities work in terms of children testifying against their parents in open court.

I'm also not sure what happened to the Morgans after Carol's murder. Margaret moves in after 6 weeks, but not sure how long they all stay together as a family unit.

It seems a strange plan to kill your wife so you can be with your mistress, but to also take on your wife's children as part of the arrangement.

Anyway Margaret Morgan doesn't seem to have left court arm-in-arm with her two step children.