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Corstorphine Hill murder: Son in court charged with Phyllis Dunleavy's death | |
(about 7 hours later) | |
The son of a 66-year-old woman whose body was found in a shallow grave on Corstorphine Hill in Edinburgh has appeared in court charged with her murder. | |
James Dunleavy, known as Seamus, appeared in private at Edinburgh Sheriff Court. | |
Police earlier revealed that the woman had been indentified as Phyllis Dunleavy, from Dublin. | |
Mr Dunleavy made no plea or declaration and was remanded in custody. | |
His mother's dismembered body was found by a cyclist on 6 June. | |
She is understood to have been visiting her son who lived in Balgreen Road, at the foot of Corstorphine Hill. | |
It took detectives a month to identify her. | |
The breakthrough came when they released a computer-generated image of her face, based on a CT scan of her skull. | The breakthrough came when they released a computer-generated image of her face, based on a CT scan of her skull. |
A member of her family in Ireland saw the image and contacted police. | A member of her family in Ireland saw the image and contacted police. |