Malcolm Webster (murderer)
| Malcolm Webster | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Malcolm John Webster 18 April 1959 England |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Nurse |
| Criminal charge | Murder, attempted murder |
| Criminal penalty | Life imprisonment, minimum 30 years |
| Criminal status | In prison |
| Conviction(s) | Murder, attempted murder |
Malcolm John Webster (born 18 April 1959) is an Englishman convicted of the murder of his first wife in Scotland in 1994 and the attempted murder of his second wife. Both cases involved staged car crashes and were carried out for the life insurance money. A police profiler labelled him a sociopath.
In childhood he was prone to pretending to faint, was largely isolated and his penchant for fires earned him the nickname of 'pyro'. He left school at 15, with no qualifications.
He worked as a nurse, a bin man, a driver and an office clerk. In his teens he lied about having cancer. His crimes were portrayed in the TV miniseries The Widower.
His father, Alexander (Sandy) Robertson Webster, had been the head of the Fraud Squad in the Metropolitan Police, holding the rank of Detective Chief Superintendent.
When he was 30, Webster worked in Tawam children's hospital in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Within six months he was forced to resign, following an investigation into the deaths of three children under his care. All three children had been under six years old and died of cardiac failure (which is unusual for children that age). Due to Muslim culture's forbidding post-mortems, and favouring quick burials, there was insufficient evidence for a police investigation. His former co-worker and girlfriend, Beth Brown, has stated that Webster's supervisors had discovered that he had been injecting himself with insulin and formed the opinion that he had killed the children with insulin injections. It is reputed that his father (a senior police officer) used his influence to get his son out of the country. Webster later denied the allegations.
Webster had been described as "thief, liar and philanderer". He habitually pursued relationships with women (usually those with wealth) and relied on them to supplement his income (reportedly his favourite saying was "why work hard yourself when someone could be doing it for you?"). He was involved with numerous women over a 30-year period, with the relationships often overlapping.
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