Former Scottish laird ‘poses no danger to murder plot victims’

A former Scottish laird who was jailed for twice plotting to murder a woman insisted today (tues) he does not present a danger to her ‘in any way shape or form’. Malcolm Potier, 69, was jailed for six years in Australia in 2002 for soliciting a hitman to murder the woman who cannot be named for legal reasons. Potier paid a fellow detention centre inmate £4,600 to kill his victim and her boyfriend, but would-be assassin Alessandro Basso fled to…