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Updated 20:45
POLICE IN SCOTLAND have identified the remains found in a shallow grave near Edinburgh last month, naming the woman earlier today as Phyllis Dunleavy, a 66-year-old from Dublin.
A man, understood to be her son, has been arrested and charged in connection with her murder. The 39-year-old resides in the Scottish city, near where his mother’s body was found at Corstorphine Hill on 6 June.
He is due to appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court today.
Officers investigating the grim discovery last month had issued a public appeal for information as they tried to identify the victim. A Claddagh ring found with the dismembered body led investigators to believe the woman may have been Irish.
It is thought she was buried between two and four months ago. Cyclists came across the grave in a wooded area last month, and an investigation was started.
A reconstruction of the woman’s face, created by Dundee University, and a possible description was disseminated through media channels. The breakthrough came when a family member saw the photo and contacted police, reports BBC News.
First published 11:29
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It’s pretty bad alright. I’ve been in monsoon rains in Asia, and it was nothing compared to the rain I experienced on the NSW south coast today. I’ve used the phrase “bucketing down” all my life, but today was the first time I’ve used it accurately without exaggeration. It was like thousands of buckets of water were just being poured from the sky, relentlessly for about an hour. Then it just went back to heavy rain. Then it bucketed again for another hour or so, and when it did, you literally couldn’t see a meter outside your window.
Due to get worse tomorrow and then reduce to heavy rain for the next 10 days or so. But with everything else that’s happening in the world, I count my chickens that we are in a safely high area, and not a flood plane or a war zone.
@Jonathan Nolan: As you know its come down from Brisbane .. and you’re right, never seen rain like it. 250mm each day for 3 days solid. Some places had over a metre in that time. Had we had one more day I’d be cleaning out my own flooded house right now.
@Pablo: take care Pablo. Let’s hope it calms down or goes off the coast or something. It’s pretty ridiculous the amount of water coming down stay safe
@Jonathan Nolan: Take care, Jonathan. Melbourne is unusually humid but dry for now. Time to get a federal government that takes climate change seriously, that spends our taxes where it is needed, rather than on their mate.
@A Well Known Comical Stereotype AKA PRGuy: your not wrong.
@A Well Known Comical Stereotype AKA PRGuy: yeah it’s been lovely in Melbourne the last few weeks. The rain up there looks crazy. I heard that in one hour somewhere in Queensland they had more than Melbourne’s entire annual rainfall!
Hope you stay safe and dry there and can help others out. A metre of rain sounds destructive, especially on baked-dry land.
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