Police quash Scottish murder connection

WA Police say they have not been approached by Scottish authorities over the death of Deborah Michelle Anderson 13 years ago.

The 24-year-old was found dead in her burnt-out car in a shopping centre carpark in January 2000.

Police have treated her death as suspicious but no charges have been laid.

Reports in Scottish media this week suggested the death may have possible connections to convicted killer Malcolm Webster.

Dubbed “the black widower” Webster recently failed in his appeal against convictions for the 1994 murder of his wife Claire Morris in Scotland and the attempted murder of his second wife Felicity Drumm in New Zealand five years later.

Ms Morris died in the flaming wreck of a car after she had been drugged.

Ms Drumm was also drugged and left asleep in a car with a jerry can of petrol in the boot, but was awoken by a phone call before Webster could complete his plot. A WA Police spokeswoman said they did not believe Webster was in Australia at the time of Ms Anderson’s death.

“WA Police has had no approach from Scottish police concerning this investigation, and information suggests that Mr Webster was not in Australia in January 2000,” she said.