Bid to stop killer sharing victim's grave

A LEGAL challenge aimed at preventing killer Malcolm Webster sharing a grave with the wife he murdered has been launched.

Claire Morris was just 32 when she died after Webster drugged her and staged a fireball car crash.

But the victim's family have been sickened by his suggestion that he may still be buried beside Ms Morris, whom he killed in a bid to access around 200,000 in life insurance money.

Now, law students from Aberdeen University are offering their services to Ms Morris's family free of charge to persuade Aberdeenshire Council to revoke any claim Webster has on the plot.

Webster, who is serving a 30-year sentence for the 1994 murder, buried his wife in Tarves Cemetery 17 years ago. Five years later, he attempted to kill his second wife, Felicity Drumm, 50, in a copycat act in New Zealand.

Ryan Whelan, who founded the Aberdeen Law Project of which the students are part, has written to Aberdeenshire Council about Webster's claims that he may one day be laid to rest next to hid former wife.