Betrayed wife Rena Salmon waited months before serving her closest
friend a cold and fatal dish of revenge after discovering she was having
an affair with her cheating husband.
Former Army crack shot Salmon drove to her love rival's beauty salon in her black Mercedes. Her husband's double-barrelled shotgun was in the back. She had loaded it that morning before dropping off their children at school.
Salmon drove to Chiswick, west London, and parked the car.
Then, carrying the weapon in the recognised Army position, she walked to the salon, where she blasted Lorna Stewart to death.
Met through the school run
Salmon, Miss Stewart and their respective husbands regularly socialised together in the picturesque "Aga Saga" village of Great Shefford in Berkshire. They met through the school run.
But the two women could not have been more different. While their families apparently bonded, Miss Stewart was said to have hidden her dislike of her nearby neighbour - whose husband she later stole.
Salmon was at that time in her early 40s.
Her younger rival told her she was "fat, boring and ugly", Salmon told the jury at her trial.
In contrast, Salmon described her 36-year-old rival as "slim, blonde and bubbly".
"She was lovely. It was always good fun being with her. What I said mattered and she would listen."
'I believed she was a good friend'
She said Miss Stewart even gave her advice when she confided that she thought her husband, Paul, wanted a divorce.
"She knew better than me. She said we would sort it out - get some sexy underwear and it would spice my life up. We went shopping and we picked underwear the following day. I believed she was a very good friend."
But Miss Stewart was already sleeping with Salmon's husband Paul, after he had wooed her, ironically, with a gift of underwear.
Obsessed with revenge
Miss Stewart's husband had told Salmon in the previous January of the affair between his wife and her husband.
Salmon was shattered and became obsessed with revenge.
She told the court that she had been abused by her mother in early life.
But she believed she had found security after marriage and the birth of two children, the court heard.
After discovering the affair, she tried to commit suicide, was clinically depressed, and suffered violent mood swings.
She once hit Miss Stewart after confronting her in her kitchen. Paul Salmon said he had bundled his wife out - and saw she had scrawled the word "Whore" down the side of his mistress's car.
Traumatic childhood
Salmon, of mixed race, said she was the daughter of a prostitute who had regularly beaten her. She was washed with bleach as a child to make her whiter, she claimed.
Salmon said she did not know who her Asian father was. Her prostitute mother had told her he was one of her clients.
Former Army crack shot Salmon drove to her love rival's beauty salon in her black Mercedes. Her husband's double-barrelled shotgun was in the back. She had loaded it that morning before dropping off their children at school.
Salmon drove to Chiswick, west London, and parked the car.
Then, carrying the weapon in the recognised Army position, she walked to the salon, where she blasted Lorna Stewart to death.
Met through the school run
Salmon, Miss Stewart and their respective husbands regularly socialised together in the picturesque "Aga Saga" village of Great Shefford in Berkshire. They met through the school run.
But the two women could not have been more different. While their families apparently bonded, Miss Stewart was said to have hidden her dislike of her nearby neighbour - whose husband she later stole.
Salmon was at that time in her early 40s.
Her younger rival told her she was "fat, boring and ugly", Salmon told the jury at her trial.
In contrast, Salmon described her 36-year-old rival as "slim, blonde and bubbly".
"She was lovely. It was always good fun being with her. What I said mattered and she would listen."
'I believed she was a good friend'
She said Miss Stewart even gave her advice when she confided that she thought her husband, Paul, wanted a divorce.
"She knew better than me. She said we would sort it out - get some sexy underwear and it would spice my life up. We went shopping and we picked underwear the following day. I believed she was a very good friend."
But Miss Stewart was already sleeping with Salmon's husband Paul, after he had wooed her, ironically, with a gift of underwear.
Obsessed with revenge
Miss Stewart's husband had told Salmon in the previous January of the affair between his wife and her husband.
Salmon was shattered and became obsessed with revenge.
She told the court that she had been abused by her mother in early life.
But she believed she had found security after marriage and the birth of two children, the court heard.
After discovering the affair, she tried to commit suicide, was clinically depressed, and suffered violent mood swings.
She once hit Miss Stewart after confronting her in her kitchen. Paul Salmon said he had bundled his wife out - and saw she had scrawled the word "Whore" down the side of his mistress's car.
Traumatic childhood
Salmon, of mixed race, said she was the daughter of a prostitute who had regularly beaten her. She was washed with bleach as a child to make her whiter, she claimed.
Salmon said she did not know who her Asian father was. Her prostitute mother had told her he was one of her clients.
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