Ex of husband of ‘Black Widow’ killer says no man is safe from her (Picture: PA)
The ex-husband of one of Britain’s most notorious female killers is convinced she will strike again.
Dena Thompson, aka the ‘Black Widow’, orchestrated a 20-year campaign of terror after tricking men into marrying her before attacking, defrauding and murdering them.
After marrying her first husband in the 1980s, Dena left him fearful for his life after defrauding him of his life savings and tricking him into thinking he was being targeted by the mafia.
She then bigamously married, defrauded and then killed her second husband by feeding him a poisoned curry and, having covered up the murder as suicide, married and stole from a third whom she later attacked with a metal baseball bat and carving knife.
Dena Thompson was jailed for murdering, attacking a defrauding a string of husbands (Picture: PA)
Dena was finally jailed in 2003, but police feared her crimes may be just the tip of the iceberg, with police claiming she had targeted at least eight other men and possibly more via newspaper lonely hearts advertisements.
Yet despite being labelled as ‘utterly ruthless and without pity’ by a judge, she is now a free woman once more- and her victims fear she is ready to strike again.
‘Single men should beware,’ first husband Lee Wyatt told the Mail. ‘She plays the innocent, the sort of sweet woman that couldn’t hurt a fly but it’s all an act. No man is safe around her.’
The 69-year-old retired businessman first met the ‘pretty and fun-to-be- with’ 22-year-old in the early 1980s when both lived in North London, and married her shortly afterwards.
After having a child together, Wyatt quit his job and started a soft toy business with Dena, which she soon twisted to her advantage.
Using forged documents, Dena convinced her husband that Disney wanted to pay them millions for the rights to a character she had created- and used the same technique to trick him into thinking the mafia wanted a cut of their money.
More forged documents followed, some alleged to be from gangsters and others from the FBI, and fearing for his safety, Wyatt fled his home and went into hiding, changing his name to Colin Mitchell and paying his wages directly into his wife’s account.
Dena’s first husband Lee Wyatt was forced to go into hiding after she convinced him he was being targeted by the mafia (Picture: Gavin Rodgers)
But unbeknownst to him, whilst he was lying low in Cornwall Dena had shacked up with advertising executive Juloan Webb, who she met in 1991 and bigamously married six months later.
During this time Dena managed to con over £25,000 from Julian after falsely claiming she had cancer and needed money for treatments, instead transferring the cash into bogus accounts.
But she eventually grew paranoid her two husbands would meet, and murdered Julian on his 31st birthday after feeding him a poisoned curry laced with paracetamol and painkillers.
His death was deemed a suicide, and police saw no evidence of foul play- but …read more
Source:: Metro
