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| Malcolm Webster case: Convicted wife killer loses appeal | Malcolm Webster case: Convicted wife killer loses appeal |
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| A man who was found guilty of murdering his wife in a car crash in Aberdeenshire has lost his appeal against conviction. | A man who was found guilty of murdering his wife in a car crash in Aberdeenshire has lost his appeal against conviction. |
| Malcolm Webster, 54, originally from Surrey, was jailed for a minimum of 30 years for murdering Claire Morris in Aberdeenshire in 1994. | Malcolm Webster, 54, originally from Surrey, was jailed for a minimum of 30 years for murdering Claire Morris in Aberdeenshire in 1994. |
| He was also convicted of staging a similar attempt to murder his second wife in New Zealand. | He was also convicted of staging a similar attempt to murder his second wife in New Zealand. |
| Webster was found guilty in 2011 of murdering Ms Morris. | |
| He had received a large insurance payout after her death. | |
| Lawyers argued his trial was flawed but judges at the Court of Appeal in Edinburgh rejected the claims. | |
| While Webster lost the main grounds of his appeal, two lesser convictions of fire-raising were quashed. | While Webster lost the main grounds of his appeal, two lesser convictions of fire-raising were quashed. |
| A date will be set to hear an appeal against sentence. | |
| Ms Morris was originally from Kent. | Ms Morris was originally from Kent. |
| The death of the 32-year-old - married for just eight months - in the crash was investigated and treated as a tragic accident. | |
| Chance meeting | |
| Her husband survived, and went on to marry Felicity Drumm in 1997. | |
| In 1999, the couple were involved in a car crash in New Zealand, with Webster again at the wheel. | |
| It set in motion a police inquiry spanning the globe, as more questions were posed about what exactly had happened in both cases. | |
| However it was a chance meeting in 2006 that would offer a pivotal breakthrough, when a relative of Webster's surviving wife mentioned details of the case to a police officer at a conference. | |
| It ended with the husband of the two women facing a long-running trial and being convicted. |