Man found guilty of chopping up partner
A Scottish man was convicted today of murdering his fiancee, dismembering her body and dumping the remains in bags.
Shop worker Alan Cameron, 56, kept Heather Stacey’s decomposing body at her Edinburgh flat for more than a year then scattered the parts across the north of the city.
The severed head of Ms Stacey, 44, a mother of four was found by a dog walker near a popular footpath on Hogmanay 2008.
Cameron, who admitted dismembering her body, denied murder and claimed she died while he was out buying chips.
But a jury at the High Court in Livingston took three hours to convict him of murdering Ms Stacey at her Royston Mains Place home between November 29 and 11 December 2007.
He was also found guilty of attempting to defeat the ends of justice and of stealing nearly £5,000 (€5,900) over 11 months from his victim’s Post Office card account.
