The former pageant queen accused of plotting to murder her ex-NFL player husband in the Bahamas is headed home for Christmas — despite his pleas that she be kept on the island.
A judge granted Thursday Lindsay Shiver’s request to return to her young children in the US while she awaits the murder-for-hire trial, which is anticipated to kick off in March.
She has been remanded to the island nation since July, though allowed free from prison under the conditions that she wear an electric monitoring device and adhere to a curfew.
Shiver and her team told the court she feared for her “mental and physical safety” and begged that she be allowed to see her children, who she has been separated from since her arrest, according to Court TV.
Shiver, 36, will be allowed to return to her parent’s home in Alabama under the new ruling, but must keep her ankle monitor on and will not be permitted to travel to Georgia, where she lived with husband Robert Shiver before allegedly asking her new beau to kill him.
Robert Shiver pleaded that the judge strike down her request, stating that he is “thankful to be alive” after her fruitless attempt on his life.
“After reviewing the indictment, this was a situation close to happening…I’m concerned for the safety of myself,” the Auburn University football standout said.
Shiver is accused of explicitly instructing her barman beau Adrien Bethel, 28, and alleged assassin Faron Newbold Jr., 29, to whack Robert Shiver amid their increasingly bitter divorce.
Shiver allegedly sent a series of texts to Bethel asking him to “kill” her snapper husband.
Local police unearthed texts that detailed the plot during an unrelated investigation of a break-in at the waterfront bar where Bethel worked.
Both Shiver and Beth denied seriously pursuing a murder-for-hire plan, claiming the texts amounted to little more than hyperbolic fantasy amid Shivers’ marital combat.
Prior to their marriage’s implosion, the Shivers split their time between a multi-million dollar Thomasville, Georgia, mansion and a luxury spread in the exclusive Bahamian enclave of Baker’s Bay.
The couple share three sons, all under the age of 12.