The brutal murder of a Scots teenager who was battered and set on fire in woodland by her partner is to feature in a new documentary.
Zoe Nelson, 17, was violently attacked by Robert Bayne, 30, in woods near Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire.
Bayne, then aged 21, repeatedly struck Nelson, from Newmains, Lanarkshire, on the head and body before he put a plastic sheet over her face and set her alight in May 2010.
The college student was last seen alive leaving a shop close to her home before local residents reported seeing a fire in the woods, known locally as Monkey Hill, just hours later.
Bayne denied any wrongdoing but was convicted of murder by a jury at the High Court in Edinburgh and caged for a minimum of 20 years.
The horrific case is now set to feature on a new series of Crime+Investigation documentary Murdertown and will feature interviews with family and friends, as well as witnesses and police officers who worked on the case.
Presenter Anita Rani will be seen by viewers visiting Wishaw, Lanarkshire, to speak to those closest to the killing.
The trial heard a member of the public found Nelson's badly burned body the day after the murder but believed it to be a charred tailor's dummy before he discovered it was a corpse.
Nelson had told a close friend she used to go out with Bayne, and said he was 'controlling' and would not allow her to see some of her friends.
Prosecutors presented evidence which showed traces of DNA found on her remains matched samples taken from Bayne.
Police also found the killer had gone to desperate lengths to cover up his crime by washing and disposing of clothing worn during the murder.
He also disposed of her mobile phone and later told officers another person had admitted to killing the student.
When the unanimous guilty verdict was read out Bayne became irate in the dock, shouted vile abuse at his victim's family and headbutted a security officer.
Jailing Bayne, judge Lady Dorrian said: "This was an appalling crime, the circumstances of which are properly to be described as shocking."
He claimed the length of sentence was 'excessive' and launched an appeal against it but two judges rejected the move in January 2012.
Lord Reed agreed the sentence was at the 'upper end of the scale' but ruled it was appropriate due to the 'gravity' of the case.
The third series of Murdertown will begin on September 27 on the Crime+Investigation channel and continues weekly.
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