An unnamed and unidentified woman did move in with Donna McGovern after the death of her father but may have left the house before Donna moved to Glasgow. Brenda Rumney’s photograph was consistently overlooked by the Leicester witnesses who tried to pick her out. [1]
Donna McGovern’s husband disputes that their marriage was violent and has written a book about their relationship, which is as yet unpublished.
The freezer in Kirkintilloch was an upright, and in laboratory tests, it has been established that similar models could barely accommodate a small woman’s body without necessitating the breaking of bones. [2] The body of Donna McGovern had no broken bones.
Expert forensic odontologists have drawn comparisons and discrepancies between the skull of Donna McGovern and photographs of the woman who married Andrew Gow in Sunnyfields. [3] There are few photographs and, unfortunately, none from which scientifically meaningful conclusions can be drawn.
Upon the advice of his lawyer, Eamon Fitzgerald, Lachlan Harriot invited Strathclyde Police to conduct a search of his home. Neither the video, the hotel letter, the list of correspondents to Andrew Gow, nor his prison files was ever found. In contrast to this, Dr. Harvey Tucker has given an affidavit claiming that the videotaped interview with Donna McGovern was word for word as Lachlan Harriot claimed, as was the list of correspondents.
And so debate about the case continues. Meanwhile Dr. Susie Wilkens (now divorced) has become the subject of a campaign for an appeal, largely funded by the FFJ. She is due to be paroled in 2008. Lachlan Harriot and Yeni Tarrossannani married on New Year’s Eve 2000 in Acapulco. They have two children of their own and custody of Margie Harriot. They live year-round in their villa in Malta.
Denise Mina Glasgow, 2002
About the Author
DENISE MINA is the author of Garnethill, which won the John Creasey Memorial Prize for best first crime novel, Exile and Resolution. She lives in Glasgow.
