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| A mother has told a murder trial about the daughter she lost more than 27 years ago. | A mother has told a murder trial about the daughter she lost more than 27 years ago. |
| Anne McCabe, 67, was speaking on the first day of evidence against Vincent Simpson, who is accused of murdering Elizabeth McCabe in Dundee in 1980. | Anne McCabe, 67, was speaking on the first day of evidence against Vincent Simpson, who is accused of murdering Elizabeth McCabe in Dundee in 1980. |
| She told the High Court in Edinburgh her daughter was a very quiet, shy girl who rarely went out. | She told the High Court in Edinburgh her daughter was a very quiet, shy girl who rarely went out. |
| Mr Simpson denies murdering Miss McCabe - whose body was found in Templeton Woods the day before her 21st birthday. | |
| Mrs McCabe said her daughter, a trainee nurse, loved her family. | |
| She also said her daughter was cautious when she went for occasional nights out and would never accept a lift from a stranger. | |
| Mr Simpson, 61, of Camberley, Surrey, is accused of murdering Miss McCabe by striking her on the head, seizing and compressing her neck. | |
| Taxi driver | |
| At the time of Miss McCabe's death he was working as a taxi driver in Dundee and living in Belmont Street, Newtyle. | |
| He claims that on the night of 10 to 11 February he was either at home, ferrying fares around the Dundee area or at a local casino. | |
| Mrs McCabe told advocate depute Alex Prentice QC, prosecuting, that Elizabeth was the oldest of her four children - three girls and a boy. | |
| The family lived in Lindhurst Avenue, Lochee, a suburb about half an hour from the centre of Dundee by bus. | |
| Mrs McCabe said her daughter had left school aged 16 to start working as a nursery assistant before going on to do nursery nurse training. | |
| Elizabeth was never a worry ... I didn't worry about her going out Anne McCabe | |
| "Sometimes she went on nights out with the ladies from the nursery, but she didn't go out a lot," Mrs McCabe said. | |
| She added that sometimes her daughter would phone to say what time she would be back home, but not always. She never stayed out all night. | |
| "Elizabeth was never a worry. I mean, I didn't worry about her going out you know. She didn't smoke or drink a lot or anything like that," Mrs McCabe said. | |
| Mr Prentice asked how Miss McCabe would get home. | |
| "Depending on the time, if the buses were running it would be a bus," Mrs McCabe said. | |
| "But if the buses had stopped it would be a taxi, probably." | |
| She added: "She wouldn't take a lift from anyone she didn't know. She would get a taxi, yes." | |
| Simpson's defence team has produced a list of 13 names, claiming that one or more of them were responsible for the murder. | |
| The trial before Lord Kinclaven is expected to last up to eight weeks. |