Mrs Phyllis MacLeod (50) was brutally murdered in her own home on Thursday night, in an apparently motiveless attack. She was discovered by her lodger, Miss Nikki Black, who called the police. On their arrival paramedics pronounced Mrs MacLeod dead: cause of death was blows to the head with a heavy object. Her son Calum (27), also from Ruanish, confirmed that no valuables were missing from the house.
‘I have never seen anything so brutal as this senseless attack on a sick, defenceless lady,’ said D. I. Sinclair. Mrs MacLeod’s front door was found to be unlocked.
(Aysaar Reporter, 8 October 1997)