Killer who buried wife under floorboards of West Lothian home to feature in Netflix documentary

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A twisted killer who murdered his wife and hid her body underneath the floorboards of their West Lothian home, just metres away from where his millionaire mistress slept in the garden shed is to feature in a new Netflix show.In the new series of Netflix’s Meet Marry Murder, one episode tells the horrific story of Harry Jarvis and how he murdered his wife, Carol Jarvis (47) in September 2009, at their home in Bathgate.Bizarrely, Jarvis’ mistress, Jus-Rol pastry heiress Rita Heyster - who was said to be infatuated with him - had been living in the garden shed at the time of the murder.She helped him to conceal Carol’s body, which was then left to decay under the floorboards.Appearing in the episode, Jarvis’ son Graham explains how the couple made the decision to move from London, where they met, to Bathgate after Harry had “fallen out” with his family.In 2000, a degenerative muscle condition saw Carol, then 38, become wheelchair-bound, after which Jarvis became her full-time carer.But before long, he began having affairs with other women and met Rita Heyster.After squandering her £2.5m fortune, Heyster “needed a roof over her head” and Jarvis fitted out the garden shed with a mattress for her to live in, while Carol was bedbound just four feet away inside the house.“Everyone knew she was living in the garden shed.

It must have been the strangest circumstances for local gossips to talk about,” barrister Tony Kent says in the documentary.Graham Jarvis explains how his dad, Harry, was responsible for administering the medication for his sickly mother and would give her so many sleeping tablets that she would sleep throughout the day.He said: “When dad had maybe went away on one of his vanishing episodes and we gave mum her