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| A former taxi driver has been cleared of murdering nursery nurse Elizabeth McCabe, whose body was found in Templeton Woods in Dundee 27 years ago. | A former taxi driver has been cleared of murdering nursery nurse Elizabeth McCabe, whose body was found in Templeton Woods in Dundee 27 years ago. |
| A jury found Vincent Simpson, 61, not guilty of murder after a seven-week trial at the High Court in Edinburgh. | A jury found Vincent Simpson, 61, not guilty of murder after a seven-week trial at the High Court in Edinburgh. |
| Mr Simpson, from Camberley in Surrey, claimed he had an alibi for the night Ms McCabe vanished and gave a list of other men he said could be responsible. | Mr Simpson, from Camberley in Surrey, claimed he had an alibi for the night Ms McCabe vanished and gave a list of other men he said could be responsible. |
| The jury took just three hours to reach the not guilty verdict. | The jury took just three hours to reach the not guilty verdict. |
| Ms McCabe, 20, was last seen alive leaving a nightclub in Dundee on Sunday 10 February, 1980. | |
| 'Little evidence' | |
| Her naked body was found by dog walkers in woodland in Dundee two weeks later. | |
| Mr Simpson was charged with her murder after the case, which had led to one of Tayside Police's biggest ever investigations, was re-opened in 2004. | |
| Ms McCabe's body was found two weeks after she vanished | |
| In his closing speech at the High Court, Mark Stewart QC, defending Mr Simpson, said there was little evidence against the accused, describing the police investigation as "fundamentally and permanently flawed." | |
| Much of the prosecution case had centred around DNA evidence which the Crown claimed pointed to Mr Simpson's guilt. | |
| But as he sent them out to consider their verdict earlier on Thursday, trial judge Lord Kinclaven warned jurors they could not convict on DNA evidence alone. |