After his girlfriend’s death, a British man named Aren Pearson reportedly drove his Porsche into the ocean off the coast of Shetland, Scotland, and then swam back to shore, an act that has become one of the most chilling details in a murder trial now unfolding in Edinburgh.
Pearson, 41, stands accused of killing 24-year-old Claire Leveque, his Canadian girlfriend, who was 24 when she died, before trying to cover up what happened. But he maintains that Leveque stabbed herself in a moment of distress and that he did what he did afterwards while in shock.
