Murder charge for son of woman found in shallow grave

The son of a Dublin woman whose body was discovered in a shallow grave in a Scottish nature reserve has been charged in connection with her murder.

James Dunleavy, aged 39, appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court yesterday charged in connection with his mother Phyllis’s murder.

Her remains were found on the city’s Corstorphine Hill by a cyclist last month, but were only formally identified yesterday by police as those of the 66-year-old Dublin woman.