Fraudster planned to kill his wealthy future wife 'almost the minute' he met her

A convicted fraudster planned to kill his wealthy future wife 'almost the minute' after he met her, a barrister told a court.

They want a judge to rule, using the civil standard of a balance of probabilities, that McPherson unlawfully killed her by choking her unconscious and drowning her in a swimming pool while on holiday in Denmark. He would then forfeit any legal entitlement to benefiting from his late wife’s will and estate, worth £4.4 million.

"He killed her because of the significant motive of the insurance policies. This case is extra-ordinary because the defendant lies to almost everybody in this case. All of the facts, taken together, make it substantially more likely that he killed Paula." He claimed to be a property developer and Ms Leeson oversaw the skip hire part of her family’s successful ground-working business her father Willy, 80, had built up in Sale, Greater Manchester, after emigrating from County Wicklow, Ireland, in the 1960s.

Within hours he was transferring thousands of pounds from her accounts to cover his debts, the court heard. Soon after, McPherson cleared their home in Sale of his late wife’s possessions and joined a bereavement group, Widowed And Young – that he called “Tinder for widows.”

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