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A British woman who spent £100,000 on her Sri Lankan husband before he was murdered in an alleged blackmail plot three years ago is fighting to recover her money.

Diane Peebles, 61, from Edinburgh, was dubbed the 'British Shirley Valentine' after she fell in love with hotel worker Priyanjana De Zoysa, who was 33 years her junior, and sold her home and quit her job in Scotland to be with him in 2011.   

Now, three years after her late partner, 26, was shot dead in 2017 in a suspected mafia-style gang killing, Ms Peebles is trying to regain some of the life savings she lost during her marriage.