Neck injuries on drowned wife could have been caused by a hand, court hears

Injuries found on a woman her husband was accused of drowning to claim £3.5m in life insurance could have been caused by a hand or arm around her neck, a court heard.

READ MORE: Charlie Millers did not intend to take his own life, inquest jury finds as failings in care identified Ms Leeson’s elderly father, Willy Leeson, wept as the Danish pathologist who carried out the post-mortem examination on his daughter answered questions from Lesley Anderson KC, representing the family. Danish police initially wrongly told Professor Peter Leth that Ms Leeson was a non-swimmer. He said if Ms Leeson could not swim it would have “enhanced” her chances of drowning but if she could swim, it would have reduced them.

He added that it is possible to drown in shallow water but normally that involves children or vulnerable people but for an adult that was “highly unlikely”. Ms Leeson’s death was initially treated as an accident by the Danish authorities but McPherson was later arrested in the UK as police looked into his financial background.

He claimed to be a property developer and she oversaw the skip hire part of her family’s successful ground-working business that her father Willy, 80, had built up in Sale, Trafford, after emigrating from County Wicklow, Ireland, in the 1960s. Ms Leeson and her brother Neville stood to inherit the business.

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