Millionaire developers who want to build homes on the site at the centre of the Margaret Fleming murder case say it has a “melancholy that needs to be lifted’.
The trial of murder accused Avril Jones, 58, and Edward Cairney, 77, is due to begin at the High Court in Glasgow this month.
Jones and Cairney are accused of murdering Margaret and stealing nearly £200,000 in benefits. Margaret was reported missing from the house in Inverkip, Renfrewshire, where they lived together but allegedly had not been seen since December 1999.
She would now be aged 38, and although her carers have been charged with murder, Margaret’s body has never been found. The land where the couple lived has been cited for development for three ultramodern homes.
Margaret Fleming's carers set to stand trial accused of her murder
Despite the trial not having started, entrepreneur Minaz Rajabali, 57, and business partner Harinder Singh Kohli, 51, based in the West Midlands, bought Seacroft cottage for £120,000 in 2017.
They have permission to demolish it. A planning application described the location as a “beautiful area of land with a melancholy that really needs to be lifted”.
The application states that it is in the interests of the area “to bring new life to this land and erase, where possible, the memory left.”
