RELATIVES of ''limbs-in-the-loch'' killer William Beggs will not be prosecuted, after a police probe into allegations that they tried to cover up the crime, it emerged yesterday.
The Crown Office confirmed that no charges would be brought against three people investigated following former Teesside Polytechnic student Beggs' conviction for the murder of 18-year-old Barry Wallace, in Ayrshire.
Mr Wallace's severed limbs and torso were recovered from Loch Lomond. His head was washed up on a beach near Troon.
Beggs, 38, was jailed for life and ordered to serve a minimum of 20 years after being found guilty of the 1999 murder, at the High Court in Edinburgh last October.
After the trial, police said they would be submitting a report to the procurator fiscal concerning two women, aged 75 and 65, and a 66-year-old man.
The prosecution had said that the room where Mr Wallace's body was cut up had been tampered with.
Lawyers for Beggs have lodged an appeal against his conviction.
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