NAT GORDON FRASER v. HER MAJESTY'S ADVOCATE

Appellant: J Scott, QC (sol adv); Capital Defence Lawyers (for Bridge Litigation, Glasgow)

[1] On 30 May 2012, at the High Court in Edinburgh, the appellant was found guilty of the following charge:

"(1) between 26 March 1998 and 7 May 1998 ... at 2 Smith Street, New Elgin, ... Wester Hillside Farm, Mosstowie, ... Lhanbryde, and elsewhere in Scotland ... knowing that your wife Arlene Fraser, now deceased, then residing at 2 Smith Street, had consulted a solicitor with a view to divorcing you and obtaining a financial settlement from you, you while acting along with another or others ... unknown did

(a) between 26 March 1998 and 27 April 1998, ... at ... Wester Hillside Farm or elsewhere ..., arrange a surreptitious purchase of a motor car with a boot;

(c) on 27 April 1998 at ... Wester Hillside Farm, by the hands of Hector Dick, residing there, and [KR], ... purchase and secrete motor car registered number B231 PDY;