The 36-year-old covered up the deaths of her mother and father by telling relatives they were unwell or had gone away on holiday.
A 36-year-old woman has pleaded guilty to murdering her parents. Virginia McCullough confessed to police she poisoned her father John, 70, with prescription medication and then stabbed her mother Lois, 71, in the chest shortly afterwards. She killed the pair sometime in June 2019 at their home in Chelmsford, Essex. However, their violent deaths were not revealed until more than four years later.
'We have worked very closely with them and supported them from the outset as we established the circumstances around John and Lois's deaths and gathered the evidence which has led to today's guilty pleas.' Read more from Sky News:Cineworld to axe dozens of cinemasBabies 'have little chance of survival' in GazaHurricane Beryl hits Jamaica Locals in the area told reporters last year McCullough was a 'quite chatty' person who was also a 'little bit odd'.
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