Celeb-obsessed killer portrayed by Olivia Colman hopes 'fresh evidence' will set her free

Celeb-obsessed killer portrayed by Olivia Colman hopes 'fresh evidence' will set her free EXCLUSIVE: A legal team acting for librarian-turned-double-killer Susan Edwards say they may ask the Criminal Case Review Commission for a review of her conviction after the discovery of "newly obtained information" A killer depicted by Oscar winner Olivia Colman after she murdered her parents and blew £250,000 on celebrity memorabilia hopes "new information" will clear her. Hollywood-fixated Susan Edwards is serving a 25-year jail term after shooting dead her elderly parents and looting their bank accounts to splurge more than £140,000 on memorabilia. After her husband Christopher, 68, buried Patricia and William Wycherley in a 3ft grave in the garden, the couple satisfied their infatuation with dead icons Frank Sinatra and fifties film heart-throb Gary Cooper. Their story was dramatised in Sky Atlantic drama Landscapers – starring Oscar-winning The Favourite actor Colman, 52, and Harry Potter star David Thewlis, 63. Lawyers have not revealed what grounds would form the basis of any appeal - but Susan has always maintained her innocence and claimed she was abused by her father. Today Susan's solicitor Darrell Ennis-Gayle, of Hodge Jones & Allen Solicitors, 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.” Mr Ennis Gayle recently Susan was convicted of killing her elderly parents in a £300,000 murder plot after a judge found her husband, Christopher, shot them at point-blank range with a World War Two .38 revolver. After the May Day Bank Holiday shooting in 1998, he wrapped their bodies in duvets and buried them in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Over the next 15 years they used the elderly couple's cash to fund a £150,000 hoard of autographed memorabilia from the stars. Starry-eyed Susan even faked a 14-year correspondence with French actor Gerard Depardieu, telling her husband she was pen pals with him. To hide their crime, Susan sent letters to friends and family and forged signatures on official documents to keep up the pretence the couple were still alive. It was branded one of the most bizarre murders in British history – the timid housewife and her accounts clerk husband responsible for cold-blooded murder. But Susan has always claimed it was her mother, Patricia, 63, who killed her abusive father, William, 85. Blinded by rage, Susan says she then shot her mother, after the pair started arguing. In an exclusive interview from prison in 2021, Susan told the Mirror how she accepted she should be in prison – but denied Christopher had played any part in the shootings. Susan, now 67, also spoke of her “pride” at being portrayed by Colman, saying she hoped it would help people understand what happened. She said: “Prisoners say I should be proud that one of the world's best actors is playing me – I am proud. I hope she can help shine a light on what happened.” Susan added: "I do think I should be in prison because I killed my mother with my father’s gun from the war and because I covered it up for 15 years and took part in an illegal burial. Also, I fraudulently took money from my parents’ accounts. However, I maintain that I did not kill my father and that none of this was premeditated. "It literally happened the night of that awful weekend and I maintain that my husband Chris never took part in the killings. He did not know until the following weekend which is when I told him. I was in a real state and persuaded him to help me cover it up and that is what he took part in." After carrying out the murders, Susan and Christopher would regularly travel from their own home in Dagenham, East London, to the house to mow the lawn and clean the windows. Posing as the Wycherleys' nephew, Christopher told neighbours and relatives their victims had moved away to various places, including Ireland, for the "good air". As Mr Wycherley's 100th birthday approached, the Department for Work and Pensions wrote to him requesting a face-to-face interview. They wanted to review the benefits he was receiving and arrange the customary telegram from the Queen sent to all British centenarians. Susan and Christopher found the letter and panicked, fleeing London for Lille in northern France. Christopher called his elderly stepmother, Elizabeth, asking for cash and relaying the story about why they had fled. He said Mrs Wycherley had shot her own husband, then Susan had shot Mrs Wycherley after being provoked. Instead of going along with it, Elizabeth called the police, who found the buried bodies. A month after the murder investigation was launched in 2013, Inspector Rob Griffin received a surprising email marked high importance. Sent by Christopher, it read: "Later on today we are going to surrender ourselves to the UK Border Force Authorities at the Eurostar terminal at Lille Europe station. "My wife is already sufficiently frightened. Please could you notify the UK Border Force at Lille Europe so that they may expect us." When they handed themselves in, all the couple had on them was one euro, some clothes and a suitcase filled with their beloved memorabilia. They were jailed in 2013 for 25 years each. A judge accepted that Susan had been abused by her father, but said she had plotted with Christopher to carry out the murder. Mr Ennis-Gayle - who built up a relationship with Susan after first meeting her on the night she handed herself into police - appealed against Susan's sentence in 2015 saying the judge did not give enough consideration to the abuse but this appeal was dismissed. In a previous interview, he told the Mirror: “There are always two sides to the story. “It's obviously awful what happened to the Wycherleys but Chris and Susan themselves are not without humanity. I think that comes across in Landscapers. They deny double murder, they have always done that and I believe they always will.”