A KILLER who was portrayed by Olivia Colman is hoping “new information” will free her after she was locked up for murdering her parents.
Susan Edwards, whose life was dramatised in the Sky series Landscapers, was hit with life imprisonment.
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She was ordered to serve a minimum of 25 years behind bars in 2014.
Edwards, 67, shot her parents William and Patricia Wycherley in May 1998 and her husband Christopher helped bury them in their own back garden in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
She then stole £280,000 from her parents to pay for her collection of Hollywood memorabilia.
The husband and wife hoarded cinematic mementos, such as signed autographs of the actors and actresses from Hollywood’s Golden Age, as well as Frank Sinatra souvenirs.
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Susan also faked an extensive correspondence with French film star Gerard Depardieu.
The pair wrote letters to make it seems her parents were still alive but the authorities finally uncovered the murders after inquiries were made into what was meant to be William’s 100th birthday.
Susan maintained she was innocent, claiming she was sexually abused by her dad as a child and said her mother shot her father and then provoked Susan into shooting her.
She claimed her husband’s only role in the case was to wrap their bodies in a duvet and dig the 3ft grave.
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However, the judge at her trial found Christopher, now 68, used a Second World War .38 revolver to shoot them.
Now Darrell Ennis-Gayle, of Hodge Jones & Allen Solicitors, who is representing Susan, told The Mirror: “In light of newly obtained information, Ms Edwards’ legal team are seriously considering submitting grounds of appeal to the Criminal Cases Review Commission.”
At her trial, the judge called Susan “an accomplished liar and a fantasist”.
The exact details of who shot who on the May Day bank holiday are unclear and none of the neighbours heard a blast.
A neighbour did see Christopher digging a hole up to his waist in the back garden in the middle of the night but didn’t think it was suspicious.
When they saw shrubs on top of the new mound the following morning they assumed he had been landscaping the garden for his in-laws.
Both Susan and Christopher would regularly travel from their home in Dagenham, east London to the Mansfield property to tend to the garden.
On the day after the shootings, Susan emptied her parents’ savings account of £40,000 and then opening a joint savings account for her and her then deceased mother.
Over the following 15 years, she diverted £173,767 in pension and benefit payments to the account and banked a further £66,000 form the sale of the house in Mansfield as well as applying for loans and credit cards in her mum’s name.
At the trial, the total amount diverted into the joint account was said to be £245,705 although this was later revised upwards to £286,285.
Friends and neighbours of William and Patricia believed the couple had moved to Ireland for the “good air”, were visiting the seaside or Australia and they even got forged Christmas cards.
Doctors and officials were also taken in by the many letters Susan wrote under her parents’ name in order to maintain the illusion they were still alive.
The money taken from the Wycherley’s went on Hollywood memorabilia.
By 2013, the Edwards were living in poverty alongside the pictures of Hollywood legends which they couldn’t bear to part with.
Although the Edwards became worried someone would suspect something when the Department for Work and Pensions wrote a letter to William requesting a meeting with him to review his benefits and organise the customary telegram from the Queen to celebrate centenarians.
They fled to Lille, northern France, where Christopher phoned his stepmother, Elizabeth, to beg for money and told he Susan had been staying with her parents when she woke up to discover her mother had shot her father.
Edwards then claimed Mrs Wyycherley boasted she had slept with him, her son-in-law, and Susan had shot her in anger.
Elizabeth then called the cops.
Realising the game was up, Christopher emailed the British police, saying they were coming home to give themselves up.
When they were arrested, the only things they had with them was one euro, some clothes and a suitcase full of their memorabilia.
Sentencing the Edwards’s, Mrs Justice Thirlwall said: : “In May of 1998 the two of you planned to shoot and kill them in their own home and that is what you did.
“They were living a quiet, reclusive life in Mansfield. They knew no-one.
“They had as little contact as possible with other people. You knew they wouldn’t be missed, if they disappeared and they weren’t.”
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The judge suggested that one possible reason why the Edwards shot the Wycherleys could be because Susan felt she was owed money that she had invested into their property in London but sold without anything given in return.
The shocking story was dramatised in a four-part Sky series in 2021 staring Oscar winner Colman and Harry Potter star David Thewlis, who played Christopher.