Genetics expert Brenda Page was beaten to death in 1978 a year after divorcing Christopher Harrisson.
An 82-year-old man has been found guilty of the brutal murder of his ex-wife almost 45 years ago.
The judge said Harrisson, who has no previous convictions, had carried out a "premeditated" attack after stalking Ms Page.Lord Richardson said that as a result of a "senseless act of violence" Dr Page's life had come to a "brutal and premature end" and her potential was left unrealised. Also known as Kit, he moved back to the UK and worked as a researcher at a Glasgow virus research centre.The following year Dr Page was appointed as principal of the genetics department at the University of Aberdeen Medical School.However, Dr Page expressed concerns to those close to her about her husband's behaviour, saying he could be violent and that the marriage was unhappy.
She left what turned out to be a will with her sister, with the message: "To be opened only after my death"."I didn't think it was relevant to her marriage at the time. I was only afterwards I put two and two together.""She had been to a conference that was very successful, and she was in a really good mood," Mrs Ling said.
Dr James Douglas, who had met Dr Page in 1977 during research work, was one of her neighbours at the time."I was absolutely horrified. It's stayed with me for 45 years." Semen found on a duvet in Dr Page's Allan Street flat matched her former husband's DNA profile and was said by forensic expert to be 590 million times more likely to be from him than another male.
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