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Webster guilty of wife's murder
2011-05-19 15:24:14
19 May 2011 Last updated at 16:47 Share this page Delicious Digg Facebook reddit StumbleUpon Twitter Email Print Malcolm Webster guilty of wife murder Guilty 'Hollywood -style script' Timeline Police concerns Family statement $render("hypertabs","hypertab"); Killer husband Malcolm Webster pretended he had leukaemia Continue reading the main story Malcolm Webster Guilty Killer's appeal grounds bid fails Webster loses grave legal aid bid Wife killer to challenge sentence Killer fights for headstone right
A man has been found guilty of murdering his first wife in a car fire and attempting to kill his second in another crash to get life assurance.
Former nurse Malcolm Webster, 52, had denied murdering Claire Morris in an Aberdeenshire crash in 1994.
Webster, of Surrey, also denied attempting to kill Felicity Drumm in New Zealand in 1999.
Scotland's longest-lasting single accused criminal trial had begun on 1 February at the High Court in Glasgow.
The brother of Claire Morris, Peter Morris, branded Webster a "monster".
Mr Morris said: "Hopefully now Claire can rest in peace. I feel that she hasn't been able to do that until now."
He described Webster as a "monster" and said: "If the police hadn't caught him the killing would have gone on."
The jury of nine women and six men took less than four hours to find Webster guilty of commiting all the charges as part of frauds to obtain hundreds of thousands of pounds in life assurance.
Sentencing was deferred until 5 July.
The fatal crash in 1994 was originally treated as an accident.
Webster claimed he had swerved to avoid a motorcyclist.
However, the crash was later reinvestigated after concerns were raised in the wake of the second crash on the other side of the world.
New tests showed Claire Morris had traces of drugs in her system.
His second wife also suspected that he had later been spiking her food in New Zealand.
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