When two armed men in balaclavas tried to murder Christopher Mills in the idyllic countryside caravan he shared with his wife, he fought for his life – and to protect the woman he loved.
He was bludgeoned with a gun in the brutal attack, which lasted just minutes, before the men ran off into the night.
But in the days that followed that botched raid in the village of Cenarth, Camarthenshire, Christopher learned his wife, Michelle, was behind the plot to kill him.
She and her secret lover, Geraint Berry, wanted him dead so they could start a new life together.
"It's like a film script," said Christopher, a 55-year-old Army veteran. "I just didn't connect that my wife was involved in it."
