In court, mascara ran down Coleen Campbell's cheek as she heard her ex-husband's screams played from a CCTV recording. She fought back tears, putting her hands over her ears as she listened to Thomas Campbell's last terrifying moments. Dressed all in black, with tied-back jet black hair, she played the perfect grieving widow.
But beautician Coleen Campbell was not there as a grieving widow, praying justice would be done for her former spouse of 10 years. She was facing a possible life sentence accused of performing a key role in his brutal murder — one of the most shocking gangland killings in recent history.
Here, in CCTV footage published by the Manchester Evening News on its website, Coleen, then with dyed blonde hair, can be seen on the phone talking to the alleged mastermind of the attack, just two hours before Thomas, 38, was ambushed at his front door. From the comfort of her front garden, wearing pink pyjamas, the mother-of-four plotted with John Belfield, a man she had apparently never met or spoken to until a week earlier.
