'Hitman' killed love rival - claim

Former GP Colin Shawcross (58), was battered with a pickaxe handle and his body stuffed into the boot of his own S-type Jaguar before it was buried in woods.

Telecoms engineer Andrew Hill (49), who denies murdering the doctor in a fit of jealousy, said in prison after his arrest that a "third party" carried out the killing of Dr Shawcross, who was having an affair with Hill's wife Julie.

Hill told his wife, who was visiting him in Doncaster Prison, that a mystery man had killed his love rival.

Mrs Hill (47), told a Sheffield Crown Court jury: "He mentioned a third party.”

Hill later claimed to have contacted a man whom he met in a pub and had scribbled his mobile number down on the back of an envelope in a pub, the court heard.

The trial continues.