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Gold Coast woman Theresa Dalton jailed for attempting to procure murder of husband Malcolm Stewart
A Gold Coast woman found guilty for a second time of plotting to hire a hit man to kill her husband more than a decade ago has been jailed for six years.
Key points:
- Theresa Dalton was found guilty of the same crime in 2019 and was sentenced to six years in jail
- A second jury found her guilty after just two days of deliberations
- She will be eligible for parole in October 2022
At the start of her retrial in the Supreme Court in Brisbane, Theresa Dalton, 69, had pleaded not guilty to attempting to procure the murder of Malcolm Stewart in 2010.
The court heard the pair were going through a bitter divorce when she gave her then-boyfriend Anthony Werner $20,000 to pay another man he knew to murder Mr Stewart.
It heard she promised to pay…
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