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Feb 27, 2024 · Published: 12:01 am, 27 February 2024. Award-winning documentary series Murder Trial will return later in 2024 and focus on two new cases – the deaths of Caroline Glachan and Ean Coutts –...
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. A mystery disappearance,...
- 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.
Oct 18, 2023 · In June 2019, Edward Cairney and Avril Jones were found guilty of killing Ms Fleming at their house in Seacroft, Inverkip, at some point between December 18, 1999, and January 5, 2000. The...
Oct 17, 2023 · BBC. Eddie Cairney denied murdering Margaret and claimed during his trial that she was still alive. The man who killed Margaret Fleming has died in prison without disclosing the location of the...
Oct 18, 2023 · Crown Office. Margaret Fleming was 19 when she was last seen in December 1999. A vulnerable teenager was "invisible" at the time she was murdered by her carers, according to an independent...
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Murder Trial will return Murder, mystery, and a search for justice. A compelling insight into the work of the police and prosecutors bringing suspects to trial at Scotland’s High Courts.
