A fraudster who was found to have unlawfully killed his wealthy wife in Denmark has been sentenced to two years in prison but not for his partner's death.
Donald McPherson was originally cleared of the murder of Paula Leeson when a judge directed a jury in 2021 to find him not guilty through a lack of evidence.
Ms Leeson drowned in the swimming pool at a remote holiday cottage in Denmark booked by McPherson for a summer break in 2017.
A civil case brought by Ms Leeson's family last September concluded that the 47-year-old mother-of-one’s death was not accidental and that McPherson had unlawfully killed his wife, hoping to cash in on life insurance policies worth £4.4 million he had secretly taken out.
The High Court judge found that McPherson compressed his wife's neck in an arm lock until she was unconscious.
