Gambian wife, 26, admits to killing Irish husband, 76

THE young wife of a Dublin-born businessman 50 years her senior admitted in court in her native Gambia yesterday that she had murdered him.

The confession marked the conclusion of a tragic story that centred on William West’s dream of a new life following the death of his first wife.

The 76-year-old’s charred remains were found last month in a bag just outside the perimeter fence of the luxury four-bedroomed home he shared with his wife in the Gambian fishing village of Sanyang.