During the trial, prosecutor John McDermott QC described the duo as a self-styled "Batman and Robin but on the wrong side of the law".
Image copyrightFamily of Sadie HartleyImage caption Sadie Hartley was stabbed 41 times at her house on Sunny Bank Road in Helmshore Image copyrightPAImage caption Ms Hartley's partner Ian Johnston was in court for the verdicts
He said they plotted to fulfil Williams' desire to rekindle her relationship with 57-year-old Mr Johnston, which he had ended after she became "possessive and difficult", jurors heard.
After dumping "obsessive and jealous" Williams, Mr Johnston began a new life with Ms Hartley - but his ex-lover and her accomplice spent 18 months plotting the "perfect murder" to win him back.
Williams, who described herself as a "she devil" and "little psycho", had sent Ms Hartley a "spiteful" letter in June 2014, claiming she and Mr Johnston had enjoyed "unbelievably fantastic sex" behind her back, but it failed to end the relationship of the couple.
The planning that followed was described in court as "the stuff of spy novels".
Williams and Walsh travelled to Germany to buy the stun gun last December and, exactly a week before Ms Hartley was murdered, Walsh delivered flowers to her door in a dry run for their plans.
Walsh, of Hare Lane, Chester, kept a diary as they hatched the plot, jurors were told.
Media captionSadie Hartley's daughter Charlotte speaks about when she heard about her mother's murder
After paralysing the "decent, hard-working" woman with the cattle prod, Williams, of Treborth Road, Blacon, Chester, stabbed the mother-of-two "in an orgy of violence" and with "demonic savagery", the court was told.
Williams swallowed hard as the jury forewoman delivered the verdicts, while Walsh gave a slight nod of her head.
Ms Hartley's daughter, Charlotte, 23, wiped away tears as she sat in the public gallery next to Garry Hartley, her father and Ms Hartley's ex-husband, and her brother, Harry.
Mr Johnston, sitting a few rows behind them, had tears in his eyes and gave a slight nod as the verdicts came in.
The court heard how, on the day of her death, Ms Hartley was at home alone because Mr Johnston was away on a skiing trip in the Swiss Alps.
Williams, described as a "bunny boiler" and "kept woman" who was already in a relationship with a wealthy 75-year-old "sugar daddy" and having affairs with other men, had a brief fling with Mr Johnston.
Crime scene: the street in Selsdon after the attackBen Morgan
A teenager was stabbed to death in a “horrific” attack on a housing estate in south London.
The 19-year-old victim was knifed multiple times after being set upon in the Monks Hill estate in Selsdon, Croydon, at 7.40pm last night.
Police and paramedics rushed to Heather Way and gave the teenager emergency treatment before he was taken to hospital in air ambulance where he was later pronounced dead.
The victim, named locally as Andre, was said to have been “hacked to death” after a knife fight on the estate.
A neighbourtold the Croydon Advertiser: “There was a helicopter overhead for ages, it was really noisy and then it started to land.
“Some of my family members went down to have a look, and when they got there police had put up the cordon and were telling people to move away.
“When they came back they told me that they had heard that someone had been stabbed. It’s awful.”
Another neighbour wrote on Twitter: “Oh my God. A young lad has been stabbed across the road and taken in an air ambulance. Roads all cordoned off. Hope he’s ok.”
He is believed to be the seventh teenager stabbed to death in the capital this year.
A Met spokesman said there had been no arrests and enquiries continue.
Officers from the Homicide and Major Crime Command investigate.
Anyone with information is asked to contact police via 101 or call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
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Witnesses say the napa thing was done by the local seedy dons.
Police wont back that tho
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They never back it they slyly condone it
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NITCH
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This is actually a madness
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-37105035
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The state of the two women who planned that murder.
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two women ya kna
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"Bad Dobby! Bad Dobby!"
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Selsdon stabbing: Teenager, 19, 'hacked to death' in horrific knife fight in Croydon
Crime scene: the street in Selsdon after the attack Ben Morgan
A teenager was stabbed to death in a “horrific” attack on a housing estate in south London.
The 19-year-old victim was knifed multiple times after being set upon in the Monks Hill estate in Selsdon, Croydon, at 7.40pm last night.
Police and paramedics rushed to Heather Way and gave the teenager emergency treatment before he was taken to hospital in air ambulance where he was later pronounced dead.
The victim, named locally as Andre, was said to have been “hacked to death” after a knife fight on the estate.
A neighbour told the Croydon Advertiser: “There was a helicopter overhead for ages, it was really noisy and then it started to land.
“Some of my family members went down to have a look, and when they got there police had put up the cordon and were telling people to move away.
“When they came back they told me that they had heard that someone had been stabbed. It’s awful.”
Another neighbour wrote on Twitter: “Oh my God. A young lad has been stabbed across the road and taken in an air ambulance. Roads all cordoned off. Hope he’s ok.”
He is believed to be the seventh teenager stabbed to death in the capital this year.
A Met spokesman said there had been no arrests and enquiries continue.
Officers from the Homicide and Major Crime Command investigate.
Anyone with information is asked to contact police via 101 or call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/selsdon-stabbing-teenager-19-hacked-to-death-in-horrific-knife-fight-in-croydon-a3322086.html
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