Suzanne Pilley trial: Absence of deceased leaves questions to be answered
• In 1980, Michael Topham was jailed for life for murdering a workmate five years earlier.
The body was thought to have been buried in a forest adjoining the Queen’s Balmoral estate, but was never recovered.
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Hide Ad• In 1986, Alan Porter was found guilty of strangling his lover’s three-month-old daughter at Balloch Castle country park, Loch Lomond. The mother, Sheena McLaughlan, who received a five-year sentence for culpable homicide, said the body was buried at the lochside, but it was not found.
• The body of Arlene Fraser, a mother-of-two who disappeared from New Elgin, Moray, in 1998, has never been found.
• In 2010, paedophiles Charles O’Neill and William Lauchlan were found guilty of murdering a woman in Largs, who had planned to report them for abusing a boy. It was suspected she had been dumped at sea, but no body was discovered.