The crimes of notorious wife-killer Malcolm Webster are set to be made into a British miniseries.

British media have reported the three-part series, named The Widower, will be produced by ITV and The Borgias producer Octagon films.

Webster, 52, was convicted in May, 2011, of murdering his then wife 32-year-old Claire Morris in a staged car crash in 1994 and fraudulently claiming insurance policies following her death.



The former nurse from Guildford, in Surrey, murdered his Scottish wife when he drugged her and deliberately drive off an Aberdeenshire road in 1994.

He set fire to the car while she was unconscious, and later claimed he'd swerved to avoid an oncoming motorcyclist.

His crime was only discovered after he attempted to kill his pregnant second wife, Auckland woman Felicity Drumm, 50, in an identical manner in 1999.

She did not die. Instead, Drumm recovered to find he had emptied their savings account and fled back to Scotland to attempt to bigamously marry a third woman, hospital executive Simone Banerjee, 41, in Oban.

His actions prompted a fresh investigation into the Aberdeenshire crash, and a Scottish judge jailed Webster for a minimum of 30 years.

According to the Scottish Daily Mail, each episode will focus on one of his three victims, and may contain footage of Webster's marriage to Morris at Aberdeen University King's College, which took place only eight months before she died.



Gavin and Stacey star Sheridan Smith is tipped to play Webster's first victim.



Reece Shearsmith, star of The League of Gentlemen, is believed to have landed the role of Webster.



Reports however that the New Zealand Film Commission and "NZ Films" are involved appear to be false.

Film Commission spokeswoman Gina Rogers said the miniseries has not had any funding from the film commission and Film NZ who helps organise locations had not heard of it either.