Arlene Fraser murder trial: court hears husband gave wife ultimatum

THE prosecution in the Arlene Fraser murder trial has ended its evidence with a witness alleging she was told that Nat Fraser had said if his wife was not going to live with him, she would not be living with anybody.

THE prosecution in the Arlene Fraser murder trial has ended its evidence with a witness alleging she was told that Nat Fraser had said if his wife was not going to live with him, she would not be living with anybody.

Marion Taylor, 53, was a friend of Mrs Fraser and they discussed her marriage difficulties in the weeks before she vanished, Ms Taylor stated.

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“She had said that...Nat had said to her, if she was not going to live with him, she would not be living with anybody,” Ms Taylor, a councillor, told the High Court in Edinburgh.

The jury was told the comment had been made while the two women waited in the home of another friend, Michelle Scott, to go on a night out.

According to Ms Taylor, who had known Mrs Fraser for about six months and had met her through Ms Scott, Mrs Fraser had told her that her marriage was over, and she was going to see a solicitor to ask for her husband to have equal custody of their two children.

Cross-examined by John Scott, QC, for Fraser, Ms Taylor agreed that only she and Mrs Fraser had been present when the conversation (about the alleged comment) had taken place. Ms Scott had been in her bedroom getting ready.

Her evidence was the last to be led by the Crown, and Fraser will now have the chance to go into the witness box, although he is under no obligation to testify.

Fraser, 53, denies acting with others to murder Mrs Fraser, who was 33 when she went missing from her home in New Elgin, Moray in April 1998. He pleads alibi and incrimination, blaming Hector Dick, a former friend, and another or others if she was killed.

The trial, which has entered fifth week, continues.