Colin McRae death inquiry officials travel to view crash site

THE sheriff investigating the helicopter crash that killed former world rally champion Colin McRae visited the scene of the tragedy yesterday.

Sheriff Nikola Stewart visited 13 sites which had been pinpointed by witnesses who have given evidence at the fatal accident inquiry into the incident.

The crash claimed the lives of McRae, his five-year-old son Johnny and family friends Ben Porcelli, six, and Graeme Duncan, 37.

The aircraft crashed in the grounds of 39-year-old McRae's mansion in Lanark as he flew home from a friend's farm on 15 September, 2007.

Yesterday, Sheriff Stewart was joined by depute fiscal Kate Meikle, the McRae family lawyer Paul McBride, QC, and other officials at McRae's Jerviswood estate. The group saw the crash site from a boundary fence before tracing McRae's flight path of through a nearbyvalley. The inquiry continues.