The laird who fell from grace

There is an interesting story in the Sunday Times about the former Laird, Malcolm Potier, of Gigha. Gigha is a tiny island off the Kintyre coast and apparantly the Laird turned out to be a criminal type.

Quote: "On Thursday of last week an Australian court found the former baron of Gigha guilty of attempting to have his former girlfriend murdered. Remarkably it was his second conviction for that offence — it was while he was in jail serving a six-year sentence for attempting to hire a hitman that Potier tried once more to snuff out her life. He tried to persuade a cell mate to find someone to kill Linda Oswald, the mother of his daughter. Potier suggested arranging a car accident, after which the killer would jump into Oswald’s car and snap her neck." Unquote

On Gigha this weekend there is still some astonishment that the laid-back former laird, a plain-speaking man who had time for everyone, was capable of not one but two cold-blooded murder plots.