Nat Fraser trial: Guilty again of wife Arlene's murder in 1998
bbc.co.uk | May 30th 201230 May 2012 Last updated at 07:12 ET
Nat Fraser trial: Guilty again of wife Arlene's murder in 1998
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Nat Fraser has been found guilty for the second time of murdering his estranged wife Arlene in 1998.
Fraser, 53, denied being behind the disappearance of his 33-year-old wife from Elgin, Moray.
He was previously found guilty in 2003 and jailed for life, but started a long appeal process which finally saw his conviction quashed last year.
A retrial then took place at the High Court in Edinburgh, lasting for six weeks.
Mrs Fraser was last seen on 28 April, 1998, after waving her two children off to school.
The trial heard claims Fraser's motive was that his wife was leaving him, and that she had seen a lawyer about getting a pay-off.
Fraser claimed that if his wife was murdered, the man responsible could be Hector Dick, who gave evidence for the prosecution.
Advocate depute Alex Prentice QC, prosecuting, said in his closing speech that Fraser had "instigated and organised" his wife's murder.
However, John Scott QC, defending, said the case was "blighted by hindsight and assumption" and argued much of the Crown evidence was "unreliable".
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