Judge sensationally halts murder trial over heiress who mysteriously drowned
The trial of a failed property developer accused of drowning his wife to cash in on life insurance policies worth £3.5million collapsed yesterday – to the anguish of her family. Donald McPherson, 47, was cleared of killing Paula Leeson despite 17 separate pieces of circumstantial evidence which created ‘clear and obvious suspicion against the defendant’. … Read more