'We want people to stay away from him because he’s a very, very dangerous man'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThe brother of a millionaire heiress has warned her husband is 'very dangerous' after a judge in a civil case ruled he unlawfully killed her.
Paula Leeson, from Sale in Trafford, was found dead after drowning in a pool at a remote holiday cottage in Denmark in 2017 - a trip booked by her husband Donald McPherson. 'Serial liar' McPherson, 51, was put on trial over her death in 2021 but a jury was ordered to be found not guilty of her murder of his 47-year-old wife on a judge's direction halfway through.
The judge ruled that despite circumstantial evidence, a jury could not be sure to the criminal standard – beyond reasonable doubt – that he had killed her.
It previously emerged that McPherson, labelled in court as a 'man of straw', had taken out multiple secret life insurance policies on his wife before her death, worth £3.5m alone. READ NEXT: Detective, 31, dropped her two kids off at school and went back home...
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