Wife killer to appeal sentence

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Wife killer to appeal sentence

WIFE killer Malcolm Webster is set to launch an appeal against the length of his sentence.

Webster, 54, was jailed for a minimum of 30 years for murdering his first wife Claire Morris in a faked car accident in 1994.

He was also convicted of trying to kill his second wife, Aucklander Felicity Drumm, in a similarly staged car crash in New Zealand five years later.

Webster, a former nurse from Surrey in England, stood to become a millionaire thanks to the life insurance payouts from his first wife’s death.

It was only when Drumm survived her crash and Webster disappeared with her life savings that prosecutors re-examined the earlier death.

Webster, who has always maintained his innocence, lost an appeal against his conviction in December.