Lock my sister’s killer away for life says Chippenham man (From The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald)

Lock my sister’s killer away for life says Chippenham man

12:45pm Thursday 3rd June 2010 in

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Devastated Tim Stacey, of Chippenham, hopes the man who killed his younger sister Heather before dumping her dismembered body in plastic bags, is never released from prison.

Alan Cameron, 56, of Edinburgh, is facing life behind bars for murdering his ex-model fiancee in her flat in the city, hiding her corpse for a year, then spreading her body parts along footpaths around Edinburgh.

A jury in Livingston took just two hours to unanimously find Cameron guilty of murder and he will be sentenced on June 23.

The 44-year-old woman’s severed head was found in an Ikea bag on Hogmanay 2008, and her brother Tim travelled from Chippenham to Scotland for the opening and closing days of the 10-day trial, which ended last week.

He said: “I needed to go up there for closure but, even though it has been so long since my sister’s body parts were found, it was still raw.

“I just had to see this Cameron for myself and look him in the eye, but he just looked down most of the time when the Crown was giving evidence.

“He did not show any remorse for what he has done.”

Mr Stacey, of Cowleaze, heard how the convicted paedophile had initially failed to cut up the mother-of-four’s body with a bread knife, instead leaving her to decompose in her home.

He sometimes even slept in the flat where her body was hidden.

Mr Stacey said: “His counsel tried to argue the case that he should not be sitting for murder, but the judge said he should.

“Because the body parts were so badly decomposed they could not prove 100 per cent how she died, and that was the biggest grey area.

“My sister’s body parts were spread around Edinburgh in six or seven plastic bags, and I could not see the logic that this scumbag admitted to cutting up her body into bits, but not to actually killing her.

“Why would you do that if you had not murdered someone?”

“I was relieved at the outcome,” Mr Stacey said. “He admitted everything bar murder and there were 16 charges in total.

“If it was down to me and members of the family it would be capital punishment for him, but this country does not have it.

“We all just hope he gets life with a fixed penalty so he cannot come out.”