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Chris Hoare’s elaborate lie finally came to an end on Wednesday with the top-listing real estate agent escorted to prison for trying to beat his wife to death with a baseball bat on the morning of April 2, 2014.

In public, Hoare, 46, presented himself to neighbours, clients and colleagues as a successful realtor who was a family man so devout that he didn’t show houses on weekends. Still, he somehow made enough money to cover all the bills as the sole breadwinner for a family of seven.

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The reality was that Hoare was a hard-drug addict, hooked on pills, and so broke that the hydro was about to be cut off. He owed hundred of thousands in unpaid taxes. And his wife was kept in the dark.

So when she headed out to go shopping with a credit card, he tried to kill her out of fear she would discover the family’s desperate finances.

Ontario Court Justice Robert Wadden sentenced Hoare to 11 years and branded the attempted murder as disturbing and cold-hearted.