MURDERER Malcolm Webster was convicted of killing his first wife in 1994.
He then attempted to murder of his second wife in 1999 – this is where he is now.
Malcolm was sentenced to 30 years in prison
Who is Malcolm Webster and where is he now?
Malcolm Webster was born on April 18, 1959 in Surrey.
He was a qualified nurse and the son of a former top officer in the Metropolitan Police,
In 2011 after a trial that lasted almost four months, he was found guilty of murder, attempted murder, and attempting marry a third time bigamously.
Having murdered his first wife Claire in a staged car crash in Scotland he then attempted a second fake crash in New Zealand to kill his second wife Felicity Drumm.
She survived, and the discovery that she had been sedated caught the attention of the police.
Webster fled to Scotland and planned to marry another woman despite still being married.
Police warned her that her life could be in danger.
She initially dismissed it, but later discovered that someone had tampered with the life jacket she used when using her boat.
Webster was arrested and went on trial at Glasgow High Court in 2011, and was sentenced to life, with a minimum term of thirty years.
He remains in prison to this day.
Webster has launched appeals against his conviction, all of which have been dropped or rejected.
Detective Inspector Charles Henry who investigated Webster said: “Money is a motivation but also the lifestyle, being the centre of attraction because narcissism is a trait that psychopaths have”.
“They have to be controlling so it’s not all about money, but also manipulation and the enjoyment of manipulation”.
Who were Malcolm Webster’s victims?
Claire Morris
Webster married Claire Morris in September 1993, but Webster was secretly drugging her with tranquilisers and medication he’d stolen from his hospital.
Eight months into their marriage, he murdered her by staging a car crash north of Aberdeen.
Webster sought to disguise the killing by driving with his unconscious wife in the car down a secluded road and crashing it into a tree.
He then set the car on fire, with Claire in the passenger’s seat.
At the time, police concluded it was an accident, and Webster was able to collect her £200,000 life insurance policy.
Felicity Drumm
After Morris’ death he moved to Saudi Arabia and then to New Zealand.
There he married second wife Felicity Drumm in 1997, with whom he had a son.
Two years after they were married, Webster drove into a ditch with Drumm in the car, and claimed the steering had failed.
She wasn’t injured but hospital tests revealed she had been sedated.
Warrants for Webster’s arrest were issued but he fled back to the UK.
It was later revealed that he had taken out insurance policies in Drumm’s name worth almost £1million.
Simone Banarjee
Back in Scotland, Webster started at a hospital in Oban, Argyle and began a relationship with Simone Banarjee, who was also a nurse.
Webster told Banarjee, who was wealthy, that he had terminal leukaemia and shaved off his hair and eyebrows.
They were planning to marry, despite the fact that he was still married to his second wife.
Banerjee altered her will to make him the beneficiary, though the police were by then on to Webster.
How was Malcolm Webster caught?
The sister of Webster’s second wife told police of her fears that he had killed his first wife and tried to kill Felicity.
This led to reopening of the probe into his first wife’s death.
Banarjee was given an Osman warning by the police, which alerts those who receive it to a risk of murder.
They informed her that Webster didn’t have cancer and alerted her to allegations over his past in New Zealand and Scotland.
The police announced they were re-examining Claire Morris’ death in 2008, and news followed that New Zealand police were looking for him.
Malcolm was charged in 2009 for the murder of Claire Morris, the attempted murder of Felicity Drumm and attempting to bigamously marry Simone Banarjee to gain access to her estate.
Who is DI Charles Henry?
Detective Inspector Charles Henry is an investigator who spent three years pursuing the case.
It was then a cold case, but his work lead to the police reopening it.
In the investigation that followed, a team of 20 gathered over a thousand witness statements, and served 90 search warrants.
Speaking in Married to a Psychopath, a Channel 4 documentary about Webster he said: “Any woman he befriended, their relationship was full of charming antidotes, little messages, romantic presents.
“He was funny and engaging and even befriended police officers that worked in the local office in Oban, convincing them, and all his colleagues, he had terminal cancer.”
Charles explained that Webster’s move to the seaside community of Oban was the beginning of his downfall.
“He made a classic mistake,” he said, “thinking he could flee to a small town where he can disappear, not get noticed and not have his past catch up with him.
“But the converse is true because individuals stand out in a small community so it’s easier for us to obtain information.”
Henry left the force after Webster’s arrest and was a police advisor and consultant on the ITV drama about his crimes The Widower.
