By Leon Watson PUBLISHED: 13:08 EST, 19 November 2013 | UPDATED: 14:30 EST, 19 November 2013 A cheating wife tried to hire a hitman to wipe her husband 'off the face of the earth' after she started a series of affairs with other men, a court heard. Kelly Cliff, 40, is accused of hatching a 'cold-blooded' two-year plot to kill Carl Gallagher, 47, following a string of relationships with other men. Wolverhampton Crown Court heard the mother-of-two asked friend Dalton Bowen, 45, to arrange her estranged husband's death as she wanted to end their 22-year relationship 'once and for all'.
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Kelly Cliff, 40, accused of hatching plot to kill Carl Gallagher
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Wolverhampton Crown Court heard she asked friend to arrange death
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It is alleged she wanted to end their 22-year relationship 'once and for all'
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Cliff, from Aldridge, West Midlands, denies soliciting the murder
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