Police urged to reopen case of stabbed fiancé |
Former Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie has called for a new investigation must be launched to establish whether a man found dead following a row with his fiancée was murdered. Colin Marr, 23, died from a single knife wound to his chest on the evening of July 10, 2007. Police had ruled he had driven a kitchen blade though his own heart after Candice Bonar, his then partner, confronted him over his infidelity immediately before his death at their home in Lochgelly, Fife. However, Rennie, the constituency MSP and former Scottish Liberal Democrat leader, has urged the authorities to intervene. He spoke after The Sunday Times disclosed that Baroness Black of Strome, a prominent forensic anthropologist, admitted that a report which she prepared on the case was inaccurate and should be discounted. Russell Findlay, the Scottish Conservative justice spokesman, said: “There are multiple red flags about the tragic death of Colin Marr, and I respect his family for campaigning for answers over so many years. This is one of several deaths of young men in Scotland in which the police hastily declared there was no foul play only for significant new facts to later emerge.” |
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