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Carer, 62, starved millionaire live-in landlord to death to inherit slice of his fortune
deprived of food by Lynda Rickard, 62, at his home in South Newington, Oxfordshire, on March 18, 2014.His death was not initially treated as suspicious, but prosecutors urged police to investigate after Lynda Rickard, 62, was found to have used his bank account after he died.Mrs Rickard had been paid £47,000-a-year to care for his elderly mother Mary Sootheran, known as Joy, until her death, aged 92, in 2012, and lived rent free at the farm with her American-born husband Wayne Rickard, 66, before they were evicted in 2017.Mrs Rickard admitted to helping herself to tens of thousands of pounds of the Sootherans’ money to fund her lavish lifestyle including private school fees for her three children.She admitting to forging the mother and