Police to scout remote area in new hunt for remains of Lynda Spence

Police will comb remote area of Argyll in hunt for missing body of accountant who was taped to chair and tortured by two men in house before she was murdered in 2011

  • Lynda Spence, a 27-year-old financial adviser, went missing in Scotland in 2011
  • Killers were convicted for torturing and murdering her but body was not found
  •  Police Scotland said they are searching a remote area in Argyll in hunt for body

Pictured: Lynda Spence, 27, was murdered in 2011 and although her killers were convicted in 2013, her body has never been found

Police are set to comb a remote area of Argyll in the hunt for the remains of a woman who was tortured and killed more than 10 years ago.

Lynda Spence, 27, was abducted, tortured and murdered in 2011 and although her killers were convicted, her remains have never been found.

On Wednesday, Police Scotland said they were assessing a remote area of ground near Dunoon prior to potential search work being undertaken.

Detective Superintendent Suzanne Chow, of the force’s Major Investigation Team, said: ‘This detailed work involves Police Scotland detectives, local policing officers and specialist search teams, supported by forensic scientists and experts from across the United Kingdom.

‘The operation is expected to take some considerable time due to the nature of the ground and remote location.’

She urged anybody who knows more about the whereabouts of Ms Spence’s remains to contact officers.

‘Lynda’s family have been informed of this development and officers are supporting them during this difficult time,’ Ms Chow added. ‘We will keep them updated as the work continues.

‘There will be a significant police presence in the area as this operation continues and I would like to thank the local community for their co-operation at this time.’

In 2013, Colin Coats and Philip Wade were found guilty at the High Court in Glasgow of abducting, torturing and murdering the accountant.

Pictured: Police Scotland are set to comb a remote area of Argyll in the hunt for the remains of murdered accountant Lynda Spence who was tortured and killed more than 10 years ago

Pictured: Detective Superintendent Suzanne Chow from Police Scotland urged anybody who knows more about the whereabouts of Miss Spence’s remains to contact officers immediately

During the trial, the court heard Ms Spence and Coats were involved in a land deal at Stansted Airport, organised by Ms Spence, in which Coats claimed to have invested all of his money.

She then persuaded a Glasgow printer to produce fake Danish government bonds, which were supposedly worth millions when in fact they were worth nothing at all. 

On April 14, 2011, Coats and Wade, both 42, forced Ms Spence into a car in Glasgow and drove her to West Kilbride, Ayrshire, where friends David Parker and Paul Smith let them in to Parker’s flat.

When she arrived, Ms Spence was wearing sunglasses which were taped on the inside, and Coats gripped on to her waist.

Wade carried in a tool bag which was referred to during the trial as ‘the torture kit’, containing garden loppers, surgical tape and vinyl gloves.

They immediately whisked the woman upstairs to the attic area and taped her to a leather chair by the arms and waist.

Pictured: Colin Coats (left) and Philip Wade (right), both 42, were convicted of abducting, torturing and murdering missing businesswoman Lynda Spence, 27, in Scotland back in 2013

Police Scotland officers investigate a remote area of ground at Auchenbreck near Dunoon, Argyll, to find the remains of businesswoman Lynda Spence who was last seen in Glasgow

In the days that followed, the two men would arrive every day to hurt her, as a way of trying to extract financial information.  

She was burned with an iron, hit with a golf club, her toes were crushed, her thumb was cut off and one of her fingers severed.

Ms Spence was not allowed to move from the chair for the 13 days she was there, and had to urinate and defecate where she sat.

Prosecutors have been unable to say exactly when or how she was murdered, but Coats boasted to a cellmate that he smothered her, cut off her head and burnt her remains in a furnace. 

During the trial, she was portrayed in court as a con artist who spent other people’s money like it was her own. 

It became clear in court that Ms Spence dreamed up fictitious characters who were supposedly in charge of a large-scale land deal at Stansted Airport, said to be ‘worth millions’.

Pictured: Police Scotland officers are investigating an area of ground at Auchenbreck near Dunoon, Argyll, to find the remains of businesswoman Lynda Spence who was killed in 2011

A drone being used by Police Scotland who are investigating the disposal of Lynda’s body

She made up email accounts for someone called ‘Uncle Ben’, allegedly the main investor, using the internet connection serving Rio Cafe in Glasgow which was known to her friends as ‘Lynda’s Partick office’.

‘Uncle Ben’ replied to emails from Colin Coats who invested £85,000 – all of his money – in the fake Stansted deal.

Ms Spence strung Coats along for the best part of a year, promising him a return of more than £3million when the deal went through. He asked for it in overseas bearer bonds as a way of evading UK tax.

She came up with the bonds but they were worthless, nothing more than a novelty forged on fake Danish government-headed paper.

It was Ms Spence’s financial dealings with Coats that eventually led to her brutal and untimely death. 

At the time of her disappearance in April 2011, she was being investigated by Strathclyde Police over claims that she defrauded about 30 people in Glasgow.

Coats was jailed for a minimum of 33 years while Wade was ordered to spend at least 30 years behind bars.

Lord Pentland said Coats was the ‘prime mover’ behind the kidnapping and he was convinced of his ‘devious and cruel personality’.

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