Killer fights over wife’s headstone

CONVICTED killer Malcolm Webster has launched a fresh legal bid to have a headstone he erected to the wife he murdered returned to the cemetery where she is buried.

Five months ago the headstone Webster put up to his wife, Claire Morris, was removed from her grave at Tarves Cemetery, in Aberdeenshire, by the local council following a campaign by her grieving family.

They had objected to the words “my dear wife” which had been inscribed on the gravestone by Webster, jailed for life earlier this year for killing Claire in a staged fireball car crash in Aberdeenshire in 1994.

Webster was also convicted of trying to kill his second wife Felicity Drumm in 1999 in New Zealand.

John McLeod, of Aberdeen-based solicitors George Mathers & Co, confirmed he had been instructed to begin legal proceedings against Aberdeenshire Council to return the gravestone.

Mr McLeod said: “He [Webster] has applied for legal aid. He wants Aberdeenshire Council to put the headstone back.”

Claire’s brother Peter Morris said: “Like all his other actions, this is a completely vile thing to do and shows he has no consideration for anyone other than himself.”