A former Napier city councillor accused of murdering his wife in Canada is reportedly facing further charges of attempting to arrange the deaths of a police officer due to give evidence and a lawyer involved in his trial.
Peter Beckett, 56, is due to stand trial in Canada in May for the murder of his wife Laura Letts-Beckett.
She died two years ago near Shelter Bay, about 50km south of the Canadian city of Revelstoke.
Mrs Letts-Beckett, 50, was originally thought to have drowned in a lake when she fell from a boat while fishing with her husband because she was not wearing a life jacket and could not swim.
But after a year-long investigation, Beckett was arrested by Canadian police in August last year.