It's generally regarded as a good thing that we live in a country where we can arrange a personal loan relatively easily, for virtually any purpose.
However, if you ask Timothy Kenealy, from Surrey, he is unlikely to agree. His 44-year-old wife, Zoe, recently took out a personal loan of £4,500 to have him killed by a hitman!
Mrs Kenealy said the loan was for 'home improvements' - this may have been true, in her opinion, but it's no conventional DIY job. Even more surprising is the fact that she was employed as a 'care worker' at the time!
If the plan had worked, she would have cashed in on her husband's £33,000 life insurance policy. However, the obliging neighbour - Lee Waite, 31 - who took £3,000 from Mrs Kenealy to arrange a hitman, foiled her plans by pocketing the cash.
Thanks to the greed (or compassion?) of Mr Waite, Timothy Kenealy's life was spared from the bullet of a 'Loan Gunman'!
