Mirror – Virginia McCullough calmly admits to killing her Parents. Her Fathers body is upstairs during this arrest.
Virginia McCullough was jailed for 36 years today after slipping her father, John, 70, a lethal “cocktail of prescription medication” in his Guinness. Realising she faced jail for his murder, she then bludgeoned her mother, Lois, 71, with a rusty hammer and stabbed her eight times with a kitchen knife.
For four years she used the cover of Covid to conceal her crimes, posing as the elderly couple in messages to her siblings and even pretending to be them in phone calls to the GP and the police.
She even sent her siblings birthday cards purporting to be from her vulnerable parents which she ordered online with pre-printed messages.
But after McCullough continued to squander their pensions and built up debts on their credit cards. In total she stole cash to the tune of £149,697 before and after the murders.
Police eventually began a missing persons probe and they stormed the family home in Plump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, on September 15 last year and discovered the elderly couple’s badly decomposed bodies.
Socially awkward recluse McCullough was captured on body-worn footage making a chilling confession as she was arrested, telling officers: “I know I don’t seem 100 per cent evil.” Investigators discovered McCullough had been swindling their finances for years before the attack and struck as she feared her lies were about to be exposed.
Today prosecutors applied for a whole life order that would have meant McCullough died in prison, claiming she was “motivated for financial gain” and had made “concerted and extreme steps to conceal the bodies”.
It would have made her only the fifth woman in UK history to get a whole life sentence and put her in the same ranks as some of Britain’s most heinous killers, including Rose West, Lucy Letby and Joanna Dennehy
