 He was duly sentenced to life imprisonment with a punishment part of 25 years.His wife had disappeared in 1998 and he insisted that he was innocent of any involvement in her disappearance and presumed death.The cornerstone of the Crown's case against Fraser was that on 7 May he had returned certain rings from the dead body of his wife, 9 days after she vanished, in order to foster the appearance that she had decided to leave of her own volition.