A three-part drama based on the crimes of convicted murderer Malcolm Webster.
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Felicity's father Brian is growing suspicious of Webster after a fire at their home and, helped by his other daughter Jane, forces open his son-in-law's briefcase to discover that he is planning to ...
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Webster continues to evade capture and plans to bigamously marry Simone, while DI Henry is being thwarted at every step of his investigation.
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Malcolm Webster, a nurse at an Aberdeen hospital, has a life-style he cannot afford and when his wife Claire shows her displeasure at his debts he drugs her with drugs stolen from the hospital to ...
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The 'G' plate Rover 600 series police car in episode 1, that PC Rae arrives in to tell Malcolm that the investigation of his wife's death is being scaled down, was only manufactured in Britain from 1993 to 1999, yet the G plate registration was for cars registered 1989/1990. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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I have been viewing this story as a TV mini-series here in New Zealand, where it made significant news due to relevant local connections.
Whilst I cannot fault the work of the principal actors/actresses in the story, I do feel that a number of liberties have been taken in its production, leading it somewhat askew from the details of the events as they actually occurred.
I refer here to the attempted murder of Ms. Drumm - Webster's second wife, in New Zealand, in 1999. From my recollection of the incident, the couple were driving in to the bank at which point Webster veered the car over two or three lanes of motorway before the car left the road as he pretended to be having a heart attack, not as the movie portrayed it, which involved parking up at a forest park where Webster was intending to torch the vehicle with Ms. Drumm inside.
A further anomaly here is the funds Webster misappropriated from Ms. Drumm's account. The story clearly portrayed the amount of funds in the account as $240,000, yet in historical news reports this is stated as $140,000.
I recall reading somewhere that some of the key witnesses were consulted prior to the making of this drama, so why did the production team find it so necessary to distort the facts in a case that will be remembered by so many for the events portrayed on-screen moreso than those given in the distantly remembered media coverage?