Daughter, 36, to be sentenced for murdering her own parents

A pistillate who murdered her parents past lived alongside their bodies for 4 years portion lying astir their whereabouts is to beryllium sentenced connected Friday.

Virginia McCullough poisoned her begetter John McCullough, aged 70 astatine the clip of his death, with medicine medicine and fatally stabbed her 71-year-old parent Lois McCullough soon afterwards, Essex Police said.

The 36-year-old admitted to their murders betwixt June 17 2019 and June 20 2019 astatine an earlier proceeding astatine Chelmsford Crown Court.

McCullough had concealed their bodies wrong the location astatine Pump Hill successful Great Baddow, Essex and continued to unrecorded astatine the address.

To screen her tracks, she told persistent lies astir their whereabouts, often telling doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, connected vacation oregon distant connected lengthy trips, Essex Police added.

Her actions were uncovered aft her parents’ GPs raised concerns implicit missed appointments and constabulary forced introduction to the location connected September 15 2023.

In the moments afterwards, she confessed to what she had done, the unit added.

A idiosyncratic astatine a adjacent shop, who asked not to beryllium named, said McCullough had told him her parents had moved to beryllium by the seaside.

“We’re each shocked, we didn’t deliberation she was susceptible of this,” helium said.

Judge Mr Justice Johnson is to condemnation McCullough connected Friday astatine Chelmsford Crown Court.

Warning her astatine an earlier proceeding that she faced a beingness sentence, Judge Christopher Morgan, who presided implicit the plea hearing, said: “You volition recognize that determination is simply a azygous condemnation that tin beryllium passed upon you successful these circumstances.

“Consideration nevertheless has to beryllium fixed to the minimum term.”