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Killers silence over Margaret Fleming body last act of control
By Stuart MacDonald - Monday, 1st February 2021, 7:00 am
The couple who killed teenager Margaret Fleming are using their "last act of control" by not revealing where her body is, criminologists have said.
Experts who studied Edward Cairney and Avril Jones for a TV documentary to be shown tonight insisted their refusal to disclose Ms Flemings whereabouts was their way of taunting the police and their victim's loved ones.
Ms Fleming was 19 when she was last seen in December 1999, but police did not start a missing person investigation until October 2016 that a missing person investigation was launched.
Cairney, 79, and Avril Jones, 60, of Inverkip, Renfrewshire, were arrested in 2017 and convicted of her murder in July 2019.
Jones was also found guilty of fraudulently claiming £182,000 in benefits by pretending Ms Fleming was alive. Dr Mohammed Rahman, a criminologist at Birmingham City University, said: "When killers don't confess to the crimes they have committed, or tell the authorities where their victim's body is located, this for many is their last form of control.
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https://www.scotsman.com/news/uk-news/killers-silence-over-margaret-fleming-body-last-act-control-3119042
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