A man who survived three murder attempts by his wife claims she is the victim after having an affair with his best friend.
Ray Weatherall, 59, is fighting a battle with terminal cancer in a bid to get back together with his wife Hayley, 38, once she is released from prison.
Hayley conspired with her secret lover Glenn Pollard, her husband’s best friend of 20 years, to kill her devoted husband in a series of savage plots, all three of which she survived.
She and Pollard were sentenced to life in prison after he suffered a gunshot wound to the face, a pool heater explosion and a plot to end his life with sleeping pills and insulin.
But more than five years after Hayley was jailed, Weatherall says she is the “victim” and the blame lies with Pollard.
In new footage, Weatherall says: “I want her to come back to me.”
Asked if Hayley is still welcome in the family home, the father-of-seven says: “As far as I’m concerned, yes.
‘Well, because I love her. And if it weren’t for Mr. Pollard, none of this would have ever happened.
When asked if his wife is the victim, Weatherall responds: “Oh, definitely.”
New pictures show Ray Weatherall (pictured) speaking about his continued love and devotion to his wife Hayley.
Weatherall and his wife Hayley before she was jailed for attempting to murder him three times.
In new images, Weatherall says: ‘I want her to come back to me’
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Hayley and Glenn Pollard (pictured) were jailed for life after Weatherall endured a gunshot to the face, an exploding pool heater and a plot to end his life with sleeping pills and insulin.
He added: “Glenn and I were best friends and suddenly I found out he had been cheating on my wife.
“Of course things didn’t go very well at the time. I was sitting in the front room and his phone was on the arm of my chair, and he was sitting in the chair next to me, and suddenly it rang: “I love you, Hayley.”
Weatherall still makes 200-mile trips each month to see Hayley at HMP Bronzefield, in Ashford, Surrey, and says their interactions are warm.
“There has been no interruption,” he says. ‘She gives me a hug and a kiss and we sit together, and we always have the family room where there is a double sofa.
‘It’s lovely. I wouldn’t like to stop seeing it, let’s put it that way. I would feel very bad.
The father, who suffers from terminal brain cancer, still has the bullet scar and second-degree burns that remind him of the incidents.
“My goal is to survive long enough so that Hayley can get out of prison and can return home,” he previously told the Mirror. ‘This house is both yours and mine. I can’t wait to have her back. He should have been dead years ago.
Hayley (pictured) conspired with her secret lover Glenn Pollard, her husband’s best friend of 20 years, to kill her devoted husband.
‘It’s a miracle he’s here. My goal is to see her walk through that door. I’ll be alive long enough for that. People say I’m angry but I don’t care. I visit her every month and we kiss and hug and it’s lovely.
Hayley was brainwashed. She was a fool. He has always been easily fooled. And he’s serving a life sentence for that stupidity. But I completely blame my old friend Glenn.
Weatherall says he doesn’t want to see his former best friend again and that he won’t be invited to Hayley’s release party.
He and Pollard had been friends for more than 20 years and went shooting together.
The loyal husband has already surprised viewers with his forgiveness: he bought his wife Christmas gifts to enjoy in prison just months after his incarceration.
A family friend told the Mirror he wanted to give her perfume, but as liquids were not allowed in prison, he chose a Boyzone CD.
Despite a judge calling Mrs Weatherall “cold, calculated” and “impatient” over her husband’s death, her husband claimed they “made her worse than she is”.
Ray had been told he had months to live when Heather, who goes by the name Arthur, shot him in the face like a “sniper” after a series of failed attempts on his life.
Despite her condition, the husband still makes 200-mile trips each month to see her at HMP Bronzefield, in Ashford, Surrey.
The father of seven, who suffers from terminal brain cancer, still has the bullet scar and second-degree burns that remind him of the incidents. Pictured: An x-ray of Raymond Weatherall’s jaw, with a bullet visible.
They included exploding a pool heater that left him with second-degree burns, drowning him while fishing and poisoning him with insulin.
Weatherall was unaware that his wife and best friend of 20 years were trying to kill him after planning a new life together.
At the trial, Maidstone Crown Court was told that the non-fatal shooting triggered a long and intricate investigation by Kent Police, which uncovered a series of other failed attempts on the man’s life, planned before and after the shooting. .
Shortly after they were jailed, Weatherall told Good Morning Britain that Glenn had been the main instigator of the plot and that his wife was “dragged into it”.
He said: ‘I am disgusted with Glenn and his daughter. Without a doubt, Glenn was the driving force behind it all. It makes me sick that my wife got involved in all this.
‘It was probably two or three months before I found out what was really going on. She started to be a little cold to me.
‘Until that moment we never had any problems. I still don’t understand how he got into all this.
Their plans began to unravel in January after Ray’s niece, Emma Worsfold, tipped off police that they were trying to kill Ray after learning of the affair.
Weatherall was unaware that his wife and best friend of 20 years were trying to kill him after planning a new life together.
Weatherall is fighting a battle with terminal cancer in a bid to get back together with his wife Hayley, 38, once she is released from prison.
Kent police raided his homes and quickly recovered the bolt-action rifle used to shoot him.
Electrical devices were analyzed and hundreds of messages between Glenn and Heather were discovered, including about how they planned to kill their love rival.
The jury also heard of other events that threatened the victim’s life between the summer of 2017 and the spring of 2018, attributed simply to accidents.
Mr Weatherall was blown up when his burner exploded, he was set up to drown during a fishing trip with Pollard and is suspected of being poisoned.
Glenn Pollard was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 17 years, while the other two were sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 15 years.
Heather Pollard was seen laughing in the dock with her father before the sentence was handed down.
Jurors heard that the treacherous Pollard had a license to carry weapons and “brainwashed” his daughter, who was Mr Weatherall’s great-niece, into firing the “sniper” shot last November.
He was shot in the face at Sandwich Marina in Kent, but survived when the bullet hit his right cheekbone.
Ray was diagnosed with brain cancer in August 2015 and was given just 18 months to live the following year thanks to daily insulin injections for his diabetes.