Man was plotting wife’s murder on wedding day

ON the day Colin Whelan publicly pledged his undying love for his wife Mary, he was plotting how to get away with murder and a half million insurance windfall.

The most calculated and callous killing he has ever encountered was how Mr Justice Paul Carney, the country’s most senior criminal judge, described the murder of Ms Whelan.

He was speaking before sentencing Whelan to a mandatory life sentence before a packed Central Criminal Court yesterday.