Memory walk costs brother his leg

The brother of a woman murdered by her husband, Malcolm Webster, has had part of his leg amputated after damaging it during a walk in her memory.Peter Morris had to halt his trek from his sister Claire's grave in Tarves, Aberdeenshire, to Holyrood last month.He still gave a 6,000-strong petition to the Scottish Parliament calling for a foundation to help victims of crime.However, gangrene set in and Mr Morris, of Kent, had to have part of his right leg removed by surgeons on Wednesday.Claire Morris was murdered by Webster, from Guildford in Surrey, in 1994.The former nurse was jailed for a minimum of 30 years in July for murdering 32-year-old Ms Morris - originally of Upchurch in Kent - in a staged car crash.Mr Morris, from Gillingham, had taken on the 150-mile walk to draw attention to his cause, calling for better treatment for the victims of crime and their families.His walk to Edinburgh - which took two and a half weeks - was cut short after he hurt his foot and required four days of hospital treatment in Dundee.He picked up the challenge again on the edge of Edinburgh to finish at the parliament in Holyrood.The SNP government previously pledged new legislation on victim rights.The petitions committee agreed to raise the issue with Scottish ministers.Webster is set to appeal against his conviction.The fatal crash was originally treated as an accident. Webster said he had swerved to avoid a motorcyclist.However, the crash was reinvestigated after concerns were raised in the wake of a second crash in New Zealand in 1999.New tests showed Ms Morris had traces of drugs in her system.Webster was also convicted of trying to murder his second wife, Felicity Drumm, in Auckland.He was also found guilty of intending to bigamously marry another woman, Simone Banarjee, from Oban, Argyll, to gain access to her estate, while pretending he had leukaemia.The crimes were committed as part of a plot to claim almost £1m in life assurance money.