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Jan 7, 2020 · Two-part documentary about the investigation and trial of two carers accused of murdering 35-year-old Margaret Fleming and claiming benefits in her name for 16 years. Show more. A mystery ...
Mar 7, 2022 · A couple who murdered a vulnerable woman in a £182,000 benefits scam will repay less than £28,000 after settling a proceeds of crime action. Avril Jones and Edward Cairney were jailed in 2019 for...
Jul 5, 2021 · A man who murdered a vulnerable woman before participating in a £182,000 benefits scam is refusing to settle a proceeds of crime action. Lawyers for Edward Cairney, 79, wanted to discuss the ...
- Who Was Margaret Fleming?
- What Happened to her?
- How Were Her Two Killers Brought to Justice?
- Where Are Edward Cairney and Avril Jones Now?
Margaret Fleming was a vulnerable adult who went missing in 1999 at the age of 19. However, her disappearance was never reported. Sixteen years later, she became the focus of a case against her full time carers Edward Cairney and Avril Jones who had fraudulently been claiming her benefits. Fleming had come under the care of Cairney first when he of...
Sadly, no one knows what happened to Fleming following her disappearance as her body has never been found. The officer who led the investigation, Det Supt Paul Livingstone, put out a plea for answers in 2019. “Margaret’s family and friends will never know just what happened to her and they have been denied the right to pay their final respects to h...
In 2016 an application for a Personal Independence Payment raised suspicions with authorities when they couldn’t contact Fleming. After the police were called, it was discovered that Fleming had seemingly vanished from the village of Inverkip on the west coast of Scotland where she had lived. When the police asked neighbours about Fleming, they wer...
The pair were convicted of murder in July 2019 and were each sentenced to life with a minimum of 14 years in prison.
Jan 7, 2020 · 7 Jan 2020. Reading time: 2 minutes. A mystery disappearance, a secret guarded for 16 years, a murder trial in search of answers – this is the story of the murder of Margaret Fleming.
Filmed by Bafta Scotland Award-winning director Matt Pinder, this groundbreaking documentary takes the audience into the very centre of the trial at Glasgow’s High Court, as carers Cairney and Jones face trial for the murder of 35 year-old Margaret Fleming.
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The police officer who first knocked on Avril Jones and Edward Cairney's door looking for missing woman Margaret Fleming has told how he knew "something wasn't right".
