A Northern Ireland mother of triplets today received a life sentence with a minimum of 15 years' imprisonment for the murder of her husband.
Lesley Gault (35) sobbed as Lord Justice Campbell sentenced her to life imprisonment for the murder of her husband, Paul, in May 2000.
Mr Gault (34) was beaten to death with a hockey stick in the bedroom of their home in Audley Avenue, in Lisburn, Belfast Crown Court heard.
Gault's lover, Gordon Graham, of Ballygowan, is already serving a life sentence for the murder.
Lord Justice Campbell said he doubted whether Gault would have been involved in the killing of her husband had it not been for an affair she had with Graham "and their complete infatuation with one another".
He said it was clear that she had had a planning role in her husband's murder even if she had not carried it out.
Both she and her husband had let their children off school before his killing and she had left the scene of the killing to go to the shops just before it was carried out.
"It is difficult to comprehend how someone could be so callous," the judge said.