British woman who murdered her parents lived with their bodies sentenced to life in prison

This undated awards photo released by Essex Police shows Virginia McCullough who will be sentenced at Chelmsford Crown Court on October 11 after murdering her parents and then living next to their bodies for four years while lying about their whereabouts. (AP)

LONDON, Oct 12 (AP): A British woman who murdered her parents and then lived next to their bodies in makeshift graves in the family home for four years was sentenced Friday to life imprisonment and told she is not eligible for parole for 36 years. year. Virginia McCullough, who spent her parents’ money and went to great lengths to cover her tracks with family and friends through a web of lies, pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing at Chelmsford Crown Court in southeast England in June 2019 pleaded guilty to the murder of her parents.

Judge Jeremy Johnson said at the sentencing hearing that McCullough’s actions constituted a “gross breach of trust between parents and their children.” When Essex Police raided her home in the village of Great Baddow last September, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had murdered them.

McCullough, 36, admitted that she poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription drugs that she crushed and put in his alcoholic drinks and that a day later she beat her 71-year-old mother Lois McCullough with a hammer and fatally stabbed her . “I knew this was going to happen eventually,” she said as she was handcuffed in body-worn footage captured by police and released Friday. “It’s appropriate that I serve my sentence.” After McCullough was arrested on suspicion of double murder, she told an officer, “Shut it, at least you caught the bad guy,” adding, “I know I don’t seem 100% bad.”