Pictured: Gerald Corrigan, who was fatally shot with a crossbow
A pensioner who was fatally shot with a crossbow was conned out of more than £200,000 in the years leading up to his death, a court has heard.
Gerald Corrigan, 74, and his partner Marie Bailey, 67, befriended Richard Wyn Lewis in 2015 and in the following four years paid out thousands of pounds which they believed was for property developments, land sales and horses, Mold Crown Court was told on Monday.
Prosecutor Peter Rouch QC said the reasons for Mr Corrigan's murder outside his home in Anglesey, North Wales, in 2019 had nothing to do with the trial, but the alleged fraud offences came to light when Miss Bailey was interviewed by police after his death.
He said: 'Wyn Lewis is a conman, he is a fraudster, and during the period spanned by this indictment he conned a number of different people out of serious amounts of money, sometimes hundreds of pounds and sometimes thousands, many thousands.
'Throughout this time people lost their money and Wyn Lewis dishonestly kept it.'
Richard Wyn Lewis (left), of Holyhead, denies 11 counts of fraud and one count of intending to pervert the course of justice. His partner Siwan Maclean (right), 52, denies entering into a money laundering arrangement
Prosecutor Mr Rouch said Mr Corrigan and Miss Bailey met Lewis, 50, in 2015 and came to regard him as a 'good and trusted friend'.
Lewis suggested to Mr Corrigan that he could make money by selling his home, Gof Du, for development and put him in contact with a potential buyer, John Halsall, and a man known as
