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Following her return to the UK, McLauchlan married her fiancé Grant Ferrie. She subsequently asked to meet Frank to personally apologise for calling him a "greedy, selfish bastard" for accepting the blood money, but Frank refused the offer and said that he did not ever want to meet either of the two
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to having been in a relationship with
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party" in her bedroom. She failed to report for work the following morning, and when guards were sent to her bedroom to investigate, they found her dead. There were signs of a struggle in which
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in order to coerce them into signing it. Prior to the trial, the lawyers for the two nurses discovered similarities between
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and had not been in a relationship with Yvonne
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nurses. She was subsequently struck off the nursing register for her actions in using false references to obtain her job in Saudi Arabia. In 2011 she was convicted of credit card fraud for a second time, before being convicted of
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the sentences of both women to 17 months in prison – the time that they had already served – with the only conditions being that both were to write him a letter personally thanking him for his
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the murder and McLauchlan to being an accessory, though both subsequently claimed to have been coerced into signing the confession. Parry was sentenced to death by
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by her own bed pillow. Within the next week, Parry and McLauchlan were arrested on suspicion of murder after allegedly using
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