Collins begins bid to overturn conviction

SHARON COLLINS’s conviction for conspiracy to murder her wealthy partner and his two sons by hiring an online hitman should be overturned, a court heard yesterday.

The Court of Criminal Appeal heard the charge against the mother-of-two cannot be upheld as her co-accused was acquitted.

However, Collins, who went by the name of “Lying Eyes” to find a hitman on the internet, is trying to overturn another conviction for soliciting a man to kill her partner, PJ Howard, and his two sons, Robert and Niall Howard.