Police ‘closing in’ on widow’s killer

THE man leading the hunt for the killer of 80-year-old Jenny Methven claims his team is getting “ever closer” to discovering the truth about her brutal murder.

Detective Chief Inspector Colin Gall revealed that, ten days after her violent death, a wealth of potential evidence had been gathered by the 80-strong team involved in one of the largest murder inquiries conducted by Tayside Police.

He said 400 separate “items of potential interest” had been recovered by forensic officers carrying out a fingertip examination of widow Mrs Methven’s isolated cottage on the outskirts of the Perthshire village of Forteviot where she was bludgeoned to death. Her body was discovered by her son.

As part of the inquiry, officers have spoken to almost 1,400 people throughout the Strathearn valley, visited about 1,000 homes and business premises in the area, and stopped nearly 400 vehicles and interviewed their occupants.