‘Me a risk? I could bore you to death,’ says murder plot laird

A former Scottish laird who was jailed for twice plotting to murder a woman is appealing the extension of an order that bans him from contacting her and her family. Malcolm Potier, 70, 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…