Businessman admits hiring hitman to kill

A BUSINESSMAN yesterday admitted hiring a hitman to kill his wife in a deliberate car smash.

George Wilson Fallows, 57, was determined to avoid paying his 35-year-old wife Karen a large divorce settlement. He believed he had offered a contract killer £10,000 (€14,500) to smash a lorry head-on into her car but the “killer” was in fact an undercover police officer.

Detectives secretly took Mrs Fallows into hiding and faked an accident scene in case her husband came to check the “hit” had taken place. He did not come to the scene but was arrested at his home on the night of the planned accident, September 10, last year.