A WOMANISING entrepreneur who tried to collect £500,000 life insurance by mowing down his wife with his Land Rover has to serve at least 14 years in jail.

Michael Hollins was facing ruin after a series of failed business ventures and decided to rid himself of his wife in favour of "more exciting women."

But the 40-year-old father-of-two planned a "truly wicked crime" said Judge Alistair McCreath at Worcester Crown Court and afterwards play-acted as a worried and concerned husband.

Had Hollins, from Tower Road in Hereford, succeeded in killing his wife, the sentence would have been 28 years, said the judge.

As it was, he must stay in jail for 14 years before he can apply for release.

• See tomorrow's Worcester News for the full story.