Lynda Spence suffered ‘unspeakable cruelty’

LYNDA Spence was abducted, tortured and murdered as part of a plan involving “unspeakable cruelty, pain and humiliation”, a court has heard.

The businesswoman experienced days of captivity, taped to a chair in an attic room, solicitor general Lesley Thomson told a jury yesterday.

The plan was motivated by money and loss of face, and resulted in “extremes of violence”, the High Court in Glasgow heard.

Ms Thomson said Colin Coats was the controlling mind behind the plan, helped by his right-hand man Philip Wade.

The solicitor general was speaking as she began summing up the case for the prosecution, following weeks of evidence at the court.

Coats and Wade, both 42, deny abducting, torturing and murdering the 27-year-old.