Loyal Husband Visits Wife In Prison For Years After She Plotted His Murder Only To Die Of Cancer Before She Can Walk Free Again 💔🚨😱
Man Dies of Brain Cancer Before Reuniting with Wife Who Plotted His Murder Multiple Times
Ray Weatherall spent more than a decade holding onto one final hope. The Kent father who survived repeated attempts on his life by his own wife and her lover wanted nothing more than to see Hayley Weatherall walk free from prison so they could start again. That hope ended this week when Ray lost his long fight with brain cancer.
His family shared the news on Facebook with a simple photograph of father and son and the words “Fly high Dad.” Relatives and friends left messages calling him a hero and one of life’s good men. Ray had already beaten the odds once. Doctors diagnosed him with brain cancer in 2015 and gave him roughly 18 months to live. He survived until the summer of 2026.
The same year as that diagnosis, his wife Hayley and her lover Glenn Pollard began planning to end his life. Glenn had been Ray’s closest friend. Hayley and Ray had been together for nine years and had married only months earlier. Shortly after the wedding, Hayley started an affair with Glenn. The pair exchanged intimate messages while discussing ways to remove Ray from the picture for good.
What followed was a series of determined attempts. One involved a shooting carried out by Glenn’s daughter Heather. Another centred on a planned explosion with a swimming pool heater. A third focused on a combination of insulin and sleeping tablets. Court evidence later showed Hayley had also considered pushing her husband overboard on a fishing trip. Ray survived every single scheme.
The shooting left a bullet near his cheekbone. He had been outdoors helping his son Sam cut down a tree when the shot was fired. Detectives investigating the attack eventually uncovered the wider conspiracy. In November 2018, Hayley Weatherall, Glenn Pollard and Heather Pollard were all convicted at Maidstone Crown Court of conspiracy to murder. Hayley received a life sentence with a minimum term of 15 years. Glenn was given life with a minimum of 17 years. Heather received a minimum of 15 years.
Most people in Ray’s position would have walked away forever. He did the opposite. Month after month he made the 200-mile round trip to HMP Bronzefield in Surrey to sit with the woman who had tried to kill him. They used the family visiting room with its double sofa. He described ordinary, almost ordinary moments: a cuddle, a kiss, quiet conversation. “There has been no break,” he said in earlier interviews. “I’d feel all wrong” if he stopped going.
Ray repeatedly insisted that Hayley had been manipulated by Glenn. He called her the real victim of the affair and the plot. “I want her to come back to me,” he said. When asked whether she would still be welcome in the family home, his answer was immediate and clear: “As far as I’m concerned, yes. Well, because I love her. And if it weren’t for Mr Pollard, none of this would have ever happened.”
That loyalty shaped the last chapter of his life. Even as the cancer progressed, Ray spoke of “hanging on” until Hayley’s minimum term was completed. He wanted to be there when the prison gates opened. Friends and relatives watched him endure treatment after treatment while still prioritising those monthly visits. The same determination that had kept him alive after the shooting and the other attempts now kept him focused on a future reunion that never arrived.
Hayley remains at HMP Bronzefield. The minimum term of her life sentence means she will not be eligible for parole for several more years. Ray will not be waiting outside when that day comes. The man who forgave the unforgivable and chose love over bitterness has gone.
The story leaves questions that no court transcript can answer. How does a man continue to love someone who arranged for him to be shot? How does he sit across from her in a prison visiting room and still believe in a shared future? Ray’s own words offer the only explanation he ever gave: he loved her, he believed she had been led astray, and he could not imagine life without the possibility of her return.
His son Sam’s simple Facebook tribute captured the family’s grief. Dozens of relatives changed their profile pictures to images of Ray surrounded by angel and heart emojis. Comments described him as heartbreaking and heroic in equal measure. The man who survived bullets, explosions and poison plots ultimately could not outrun the disease that first appeared the same year his wife and best friend decided he should die.
The final irony is almost too sharp to take in. Ray Weatherall lived more than ten years longer than doctors expected. He used those extra years to travel hundreds of miles each month to sit with the woman who had wanted him dead. He spoke openly about forgiveness and about the life he still hoped to share with her. Cancer took him before that life could begin again.
Hayley Weatherall will one day leave prison. The husband who waited for her will not be there to meet her. The man who stood by her after every attempt on his life has taken his final journey alone. What remains is a story of extraordinary survival, almost impossible loyalty, and a reunion that arrived too late for the only person who still wanted it.
