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    Bid to stop husband cleared of murder getting late wife’s millions

    by Pat Hurst Apr 15, 2024 3 minutes

    The family of a wealthy heiress who drowned in a swimming pool are asking a judge to rule she was unlawfully killed to stop her husband getting her £4.4 million will after his murder trial collapsed.

    Property developer Donald McPherson, 50, had denied the murder of Paula Leeson, 47, in 2017, and a judge ordered the jury to find him not guilty at his trial in 2021, as there was insufficient evidence for a safe conviction.

    Her family want a judge to rule

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