Chip Row Killer Was My Ex Lover..He Told Me From Jail He Had Put His Wife 'To Sleep'

Former mistress tells of ‘lucky escape’ after murderer’s confession in letter

- Grace Macaskill

Twisted Thomas McCann sent his former mistress a letter from jail after strangling his wife in a row over frozen chips, writing: “I put her to sleep.”

The killer dismembered victim Yvonne, mother of his four children, before disposing of her body parts at a tip and a country park.

He was sentenced to life last week – but while awaiting trial wrote to former lover Veronica Campbell, saying: “I need a friend right now.”

She told the Sunday People the rambling note last June went on: “I put my Yvonne to sleep back in May. I was struggling to let go of whatever feelings I had for her.”

He claimed that he murdered Yvonne, who had been seeing another man, because she “kept rubbing her boyfriend’s name in my face”.