Police wait to speak to crash husband whose wife was found dead

Police who discovered the body of a woman in her home are waiting to interview her husband after he was injured in a car crash on the same day.

Mother-of-two Barbara Jane Cumming, 40, was found dead on Friday at a house in Mary Findlay Drive in the village of Longforgan, near Dundee.

Her 45-year-old husband Neil was seriously injured in a road crash on the same day and was taken to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee.

Officers, who are treating the death as suspicious, have been unable to speak with him as he has remained unconscious.

He was hurt when the car he was driving crashed into the back of a lorry on the A90 on the outskirts of Dundee at around 11.40am on Friday.

Detective Inspector Caroline Lindsay said yesterday: "We want to speak with anyone who saw Jane or her husband prior to about 11.30 on Friday morning. Did you see them in the village that morning or in the Dundee area nearby? Did you see them the previous evening?

"If you did then please get in touch with Tayside Police. You may think that any information you have is not important to our enquiries, but please, let us be the judges of that.

"Any information, no matter how insignificant you believe it to be, might help us complete the picture of what happened."

Police also appealed for anyone who saw anything suspicious at a play park near the home on Friday morning to contact them.

Officers went to the family's home at around 1.55pm while carrying out inquiries into "other matters" and discovered Mrs Cumming's body.

A spokesman for Tayside Police said a post-mortem is due to take place later today.

Mrs Cumming, know to her family and friends as Jane, was a sales advisor with TSB. She was born in Blairgowrie, Perthshire, and is survived by her two daughters Nicole, 12, and 11-year-old Claire.