A man accused of killing his heiress wife to claim £3.5 million on her life insurance told lies “beyond Walter Mitty territory” and has 32 convictions in three different countries, a court was told.
The family of Paula Leeson, 47, has accused her husband, Donald McPherson, of an “acquisitive killing” after she was found dead in a Danish swimming pool in 2017.
McPherson, 50, was found not guilty of murder halfway through his trial in 2021 after a British judge told jurors that the prosecution was not able to disprove his defence that Leeson drowned in an accident.
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However despite McPherson having been cleared of murder, Leeson’s family has
