"You are doing me a big (expletive) favour. I can't get him away from me. It's horrible," April Krysowaty told the man she believed would carry out the plot during a meeting in a Transcona hotel room. She even suggested methods, including beating and choking him. "I guess shoot him," she concludes.

Her effort to hire a killer was intercepted by police in the summer of 2006. Krysowaty's son, Miles Eakins, has also pleaded guilty to conspiracy and is awaiting sentencing. Eakins had been in custody at the Remand Centre when he told a fellow inmate about "taking care of his stepfather", court heard.