Jury selection begins in honeymoon scuba diving murder trial

Jury selection has begun in the murder trial of an Alabama man suspected of killing his wife during an Australian honeymoon scuba diving trip to get insurance money.

Prosecutors accuse Gabe Watson of drowning his 26-year-old wife Tina in 2003 by turning off her oxygen supply, but defence attorneys say the woman’s death was a tragic accident resulting from panic, fatigue and heavy currents in the Great Barrier Reef.

The trial is expected to last three weeks.