Man accused of murdering wife for life insurance cash

Malcolm Webster, currently on trial at the High Court in Glasgow, denies murdering Claire Morris in Aberdeenshire in 1994 and attempting to murder Felicity Drumm in New Zealand in 1999. It is alleged he drugged Morris, put her in a car, drove it off the road and set fire to it, subsequently obtaining more than £200,000 from various life insurance policies. Meanwhile, he is also accused of deliberately crashing his car in Auckland five years later in an attempt to kill Drumm, who was a passenger. He stood to receive over £700,000 in insurance payouts if she had died. In addition to ...