Twisted killer who stabbed man to demise proposes to sufferer’s companion in court docket
Mark Meadows was sentenced for the murder of Keith Green and it has now been revealed in a TV show that the sick killer proposed to the victim’s partner while in court for the killing
A sick and twisted killer who stabbed a man to death so he could go out with his wife, proposed to her as he sat in court on trial for murder.
Mark Meadows, who has now been sentenced to 23 years for the 2022 murder of Keith Green, was mad about his partner Louise Grieve and proposed marriage within a year. New U&Dave show Special Ops: To Catch a Criminal has lifted the lid on the case. In it, Detective Superintendent Jon Capps revealed: “I’ve never come across a proposal in a crown court dock before. It’s staggering.”
Meadows was 24 when he hooked up with Grieve — 13 years his senior at 37.
The couple’s affair began in 2021, while Keith, 40, was living with Grieve and their two kids in Banbury, Oxon.
Grieve’s relationship with Keith was said to be up and down, but she continued to lead him on while messaging her toy boy, who she nicknamed “Jesus” because of his long hair, about her “immense” love for him. The court heard how jobless Grieve “really rather liked the two men in (her) life vying for attention, love and affection”.
She eventually kicked Keith out of the house. Keith is reported to have told Meadows: “Well done mate, looks like you win. Just treat her right.”
However, later on, Grieve reportedly begged Keith to come home, continuing to play him off against Meadows — and he did.
Jealous of Keith’s return home, Meadows began planning his revenge. He even told his half-brother, Travis Gorton, just weeks before the murder: “There’s a war coming.”
“I’m down,” was Gorton’s sick reply.
Meadows then trawled the dark web in search of a gun and bragged to pals about getting big at the gym.
On the day of the killing — February 13, 2022 — he texted a pal: “If he won’t just leave, we will make him.”
And he told his brother: “I’m in the mood to fight today.”
On that day, Meadows, Grieve and Gorton went to the pub together. When Grieve returned home, Keith was found dead in his garden with eight stab wounds, one of which punctured his heart.
The jury took a week to reach their verdicts and, at the beginning of 2023, Judge Ian Pringle sentenced Meadows to life in prison for murder, with a minimum 23 year tariff.
Gorton was ordered to serve at least 17 years for the same offence.
Grieve got handed eight years for manslaughter as the police were suspicious that she had more to do with it than met the eye.
When cops arrived, Grieve admitted her affair with Meadows and, at that stage, detectives treated her as a witness.
Det Supt Capps said: “There was always concern about her reaction.
“My opinion was that she was somebody who could turn her emotions on and off.
“At one stage, she was breaking down in tears with the paramedics and at other moments she seemed to be laughing and joking.”
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