Murder accused 'was seeing another woman four months after wife’s death'

Donald McPherson is accused of a 'sinister pre-planned killing' of his wife, who drowned in a 4ft deep swimming pool at the cottage they rented while on holiday in Denmark

Undated handout photo issued by Greater Manchester Police (GMP) of Paula Leeson, 47. Manchester Crown Court heard that Donald McPherson, 47, a property developer, murdered Paula Leeson, his wealthy heiress wife, in a holiday drowning "accident" to get his hands on a "vast fortune".

A property developer accused of murdering his wife after secretly taking out seven insurance policies on her life was seeing another woman four months after becoming a widow, a UK court has heard.

Donald McPherson, 47, was seen with an “Asian lady” and joined a group, Widowed And Young, which he described as “like Tinder for widows”, Manchester Crown Court heard.