Suzanne Pilley murder: Glen Croe to see major search this weekend

Following new information, Lothian and Borders Police are mounting a major search this weekend for the body of Edinburgh woman, Suzanne Pilley, in the Glen Croe area below Argyll’s A83 mountain pass at Rest and Be Thankful this weekend (13th and 14th August).

Ms Pilley, last seen on CCTV outside her place of work on the morning of 4th May 2010, is presumed to be dead. The police force has charged her married former lover, David Gilroy – with whom she enjoyed walking holidays in the Cowal peninsula where Glen Croe is situated – with her murder and his wife, Alison with perverting the course of justice.

They have reason to believe that Mr Gilroy disposed of Ms Pilley’s body in the Rest and Be Thankful area on 5th May 2010, the day before the general election.

This weekend’s search will see around 100 members of Mountain Rescue Teams who know their way around this territory and who will be briefed beforehand by by Detective Chief Inspector Gerry Flannigan who leads the investigation.

This action follows a recent statement by Lothian and Borders Police that they were continuing the search for Ms Pilley’s body on an intelligence-led approach. In other words there was no point in random searches of a vast area and that physical searches would be instituted now only in response to information.

This weekend’s activity suggests the arrival of new information – but from the search area to be covered, it would seem to have been general rather than specific.