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A coroner has ruled that Donald McPherson murdered his wife, Paula Leeson, by drowning her in their pool in 2017 — a finding that overturns his 2021 not-guilty verdict in criminal court. While the criminal system acquitted him, the inquest’s lower burden of proof points to McPherson as the likely killer, citing his suspicious financial moves and status as sole beneficiary of her £4.4 million estate. The Leeson family, who’ve fought for years, won a civil judgment declaring the death unlawful, but they’re now pushing for a retrial based on new evidence from McPherson’s old laptop. Despite his claims of accident, investigators remain convinced it was murder — and the family refuses to give up, determined to finally see justice served.

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