An opened packet of Viagra and empty champagne bottles were found at the home of a convicted fraudster shortly after he allegedly drowned his wealthy heiress wife in a swimming pool to cash in on her £3.5million life insurance, a court heard today.
A cleaner who visited Donald McPherson and Paula Leeson’s house following her mysterious death during a holiday in Denmark also noticed bedding stuffed behind the headboard of the spare bed, it was told.
In a statement to the hearing – being brought by Ms Leeson’s family in a bid to stop McPherson benefiting financially from the teetotal 47-year-old’s death – Karen Mairs said she suspected this had been done to stop it banging against the wall.
She was ‘was very shocked by this and suspected that Donald had been sleeping with someone,’ Ms Mairs said.
Her suspicions were heightened when McPherson accidentally sent her husband a photograph at 2am showing a ‘fancy champagne bucket with a nice looking bottle of champagne in it’, she said.
A cleaner who visited Donald McPherson and Paula Leeson’s house following her mysterious death during a holiday in Denmark noticed an open Viagra packet and empty champagne bottles. Pictured: Heiress Paula Leeson
He later stood trial for her murder, 비닉스 최저가 with a jury told that a week after Ms Leeson’s death he had joined a bereavement support group referred to as ‘Tinder for 비닉스구강필름가격 widows’.
In 2021 a judge ordered them to return a not guilty verdict because prosecutors had been unable to disprove his defence that she had fallen in or jumped.