He was diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder by a consultant forensic clinical psychologist, Dr Gary Macpherson, who prepared a report prior to his trial.
[4] As a child, Webster was prone to pretending to faint, grew up largely sheltered, and his penchant for fires earned him the nickname 'Pyro'.
Due to Islamic culture forbidding post-mortems, and favouring quick burials, there was insufficient evidence for a police investigation.
On 27 May 1994, he drugged Morris, 32, and claimed that during a drive on the Auchenhuive to Tarves Road in Mill of Kingoodie, Bourtie, Aberdeenshire,[11] he accidentally crashed his car, which later even caught fire.
This became clear much later, when a police officer recalled that when he had visited the scene of accident, it appeared a bit odd that there were no signs of crash on the car.
[13][14] Webster, who claimed he had swerved to avoid a motorcyclist coming at him in the wrong lane, received a £200,000 life insurance payout from his wife's death.
[15] Webster's brother-in-law, Peter Morris, later recalled Claire's funeral: "I had a very firm grip of his hand.
Peter Morris, her brother, argued that it was "offensive" to have her married name on the headstone "as the marriage was designed towards murder.
"[20] The Council originally informed her family that Webster owned the grave and consequently they would have to seek his permission to relinquish ownership.
"[21] Professor Roderick Paisley argued that under the Forfeiture Act 1982 Webster should be disqualified from inheriting Claire's estate.
He suggested Webster should be declared bankrupt, which would result in the lair (burial plot) certificate being transferred to her family.
Oakley testified that on two occasions she had gone to voice her suspicions to consultant pathologist James Grieve, but had always stopped at the last minute.
[25] In 1995, a year after Claire's death, Webster was living in Saudi Arabia, where he struck up a friendship with Brenda Grant via telephone.
Grant later revealed that Webster repeatedly offered her drugs; she refused, and she considers herself "lucky to be alive".
[27][dead link] Webster married oncology nurse Felicity Drumm in New Zealand in 1997, and she gave birth to a son.
[32] Webster made excuses about his own financial situation and why his money had not yet been transferred from Scotland to New Zealand to pay for the home in Auckland.
That day they drove together to the bank when Webster, who was driving, claimed there was something wrong with the steering wheel on the car.
The car swerved across two lanes of traffic and back, but when Drumm grabbed the steering wheel, she found it worked.
A New Zealand police officer later confirmed:"He failed to appear at court and full warrants were issued.
Two of them are for arson, the third is for selling, giving, supplying or administering a drug and the fourth is for disabling or stupefying his victim, his then wife.
He habitually borrowed money from her, without reimbursing her, burnt a computer hard drive in her garden, and told her he had cancer.
[44] In 2007, Simone Banarjee's house was searched by police after they received information that Webster had embezzled funds from an angling club.
During the search, the police seized a stolen laptop and an unlicensed gun, which Webster claimed was an antique.
[47] He was convicted at the High Court of Justiciary in Glasgow on 19 May 2011 after the longest-ever criminal trial in Scotland with a single accused.
[53] Following further attacks, Webster reputedly refused to shower for months on end, and ultimately hired a convicted child molester to protect him.
His request was granted, and this decision was criticized by Peter Morris, brother of Webster's first wife, for whose murder he had been convicted, who said,Why the hell are they wasting time on a review?
Webster has been found guilty in a court, and then Scotland’s three most senior judges confirmed the verdict at the appeal stage.