When two armed men in balaclavas stormed the caravan in the idyllic Welsh countryside, Christopher Mills fought for his life—and to protect his wife, Michelle. Bludgeoned with a gun in the brutal, minutes-long attack, he survived the botched raid in Cenarth, Camarthenshire.
In the days that followed, a horrifying truth emerged: the woman he loved was the architect of the plot to murder him. “It’s like a film script,” said the 55-year-old Army veteran. “I just didn’t connect that my wife was involved in it.”
Michelle Mills and her secret lover, Geraint Berry—both 46 and co-workers at a veterans’ charity—wanted Christopher dead to start a new life. Their three-month affair was punctuated by messages discussing smothering him with a pillow or lacing his gravy with antifreeze.
When poison seemed too slow, they turned to violence, recruiting a second man for a staged “suicide.”
In September 2024, both were sentenced to 19 years in prison for conspiracy to murder. A third man was cleared of conspiracy but received 12 months for carrying an imitation firearm during the attack.
Police described the case as “like a TV drama.” For Christopher Mills, who survived masked assailants only to discover his wife’s betrayal, the horror was devastatingly real.
By James Kisoo
