A top cop has branded Margaret Fleming 's killers 'evil' and urged them to tell him where her body is.
Detective Superintendent Paul Livingstone , a senior investigating officer at Police Scotland , made the comments after Edward Cairney and Avril Jones were , and ordered to serve at least 14 years.
Fleming, who suffered from learning difficulties, disappeared in December 1999, however her body has never been found.
Now Livingstone is calling on the pair to allow her family to pay their final respects at a funeral.
Following a seven-week trial at the High Court in Glasgow , her carers were found guilty of murder by unknown means between December 18 1999 and January 5 2000 at their home in Inverkip, Inverclyde, or elsewhere in Scotland.
At the time Margaret would have been aged 19.
The vile pair attempted to cover up their crime for 18 years.
Livingstone said he is willing to meet Jones and Cairney so they can provide him details about Margaret's body which will allow the family to put her to rest.
He said: "Cairney and Jones' lies have been exposed and now they have to serve their time for the heinous crimes they’ve committed.
"Margaret was a very vulnerable young woman when she was abused, neglected, manipulated and murdered by these two greedy, evil individuals.
"Margaret's family and friends will never know just what happened to her and they have been denied the right to pay their final respects to her at her funeral.
"I would say to Cairney and Jones - if you have a scrap of decency you will give the answers to the questions that Margaret's family deserve.
"I am willing to meet either of them so that they can tell me in order to provide some kind of comfort to her family and allow them to put her to rest finally."
