New amendments in a bill before the Scottish Parliament is success for families fighting to change the law.
Murderers will be stopped from being allowed to act as executors of their victim’s estate under new laws.
New amendments put forward last week will ensure that killers can be removed from a position of control over their victim’s estate. It comes after the Sunday Mail revealed how killer Ross Taggart, 38, who strangled his mum Carol-Anne, 54, to death is currently in sole charge of her £500,000 estate eight years after she died.
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