Jailed Laird to appeal against ban

A former Scottish laird who was jailed for twice plotting to murder a woman will appeal against an order banning him from contacting her and her family next month. Malcolm Potier, 71, 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 his native…