Mascara ran down Coleen Campbell's cheek as she heard her ex-husband's screams. 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, Coleen played the perfect grieving widow. The only thing that shattered this impression was the reinforced glass securing her inside the dock of a crown court.
In fact, 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 Greater Manchester’s recent history.
