How My Wife Planned to Kill Me With Gunmen and Poison

During their three-month extramarital affair, Michelle and Berry exchanged messages that they allegedly suffocated Christopher with a pillow or poisoned him with antifreeze (a liquid used in car radiators) in the sauce of his food.

Both were found guilty of conspiracy to murder following a trial at Swansea Crown Court, Wales.

A second man, Steven Thomas, 47, was acquitted of conspiracy to murder but sentenced to 12 months in prison for possessing an imitation firearm.

The court heard he was recruited by Berry for the mission, which was intended to make it appear that Christopher had committed suicide.

The case was described by police as “a TV drama”, but to Christopher it was frighteningly real.

Christopher thought his marriage was happy before the couple’s caravan was attacked on September 20, 2024.

“Everything was wonderful,” he said.

“We were together for about ten years, married for six. Everything was fine.”

Although he had noticed that she had become “colder” and “more distant” that summer, he would never have imagined what would come next.

“When I was fighting with those two men in the trailer, I was fighting for myself and for Michelle,” he said.

“I thought it was an armed robbery. But to find out she was the one who organized it all is terrible.”

“I never thought she was capable of something like that.”

On the evening of the attack, Christopher and Michelle Mills were getting ready for bed when there was a knock on their trailer door at 11:30 p.m.

“I opened (the door) and found a masked man,” he said.

“He just hit me directly in the face with a gun. A big, heavy metal thing. It was like being hit with a hammer.”

“I reacted and fought. Then they both ran away. I was in shock.”

During Michelle’s emergency call, her husband could be heard demanding an “immediate armed response.”

“I’m ex-military,” he said. “I took their weapons. They might still be around here. It’s completely dark.”

The owner of the park where the caravan is parked, Rita Owens, arrived shortly after, “panicked”.

“When I arrived, (Christopher) was beaten, covered in blood,” she said.

Owens said he asked Michelle Mills what happened, but she “shrugged her shoulders” and was “busy going through her cell phone.”

She added: “I thought they were a happy couple, but no.”

Police arrived after 40 minutes and a helicopter found Berry and Thomas hiding in the vegetation of a nearby quarry.

They had gas masks and plastic ties in their backpacks, and Berry was carrying a fake suicide note, supposedly written by Christopher to his wife.

It wasn’t until the next day, when Christopher was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence based on false accusations made by his wife, that he realized she was part of everything.

“It was at that moment, that very second, that I knew Michelle was involved,” he said.

“I’ve never committed domestic violence against anyone, let alone Michelle. My heart sank. I just thought, ‘This is crazy’.”

The police then told him that his wife was having an affair and that she had been arrested on suspicion of plotting to murder him.

“I was devastated. It was completely unexpected,” he said.

“I only noticed a change in June 2024, when it became a little further away, a little colder.”

When Christopher asked his wife if everything was okay, she blamed work and reassured him that their relationship was fine.

Christopher saw his wife for the first time since she was arrested in the dock during the trial in October.

He testified and sat in the public gallery every day.

“She didn’t look like the Michelle I knew,” he said.

“She lied, she lied through her teeth in that courtroom.”

Michelle told the jury she thought the plan was a “fantasy” and an “escape from reality” because her husband would be “controlling”.

“At that point, I stopped loving Michelle completely.”

“I could never forgive her for what she did. It’s just a nightmare and it has no end.”

Christopher said he wanted a divorce, but any progress was difficult with his wife in prison.

“I barely sleep. I don’t go out alone,” he said.

“I will only be relieved when I can turn this page. But that will still take a long time.”

The jury had access to more than 100 pages of messages exchanged between Mills and Berry.

“We’re going to watch him die, then go home and relax together for the rest of the weekend, just hoping someone finds him.”

In the hours before the attack, Michelle Mills told Berry:

“I’m sorry, you know what you’re doing and I trust you.”

His last message after the attack was:

“The police have been called, delete all communications, I love you…”