Dick ‘was cleaning skip that morning’

A man who once stood trial for the murder of Arlene Fraser was not on his farm at the time the Elgin mum disappeared, his brother told police.

But Hector Dick's older sibling, James, 63, yesterday told the High Court in Edinburgh he spoke to the pig farmer that morning and saw him cleaning out a skip on the farm.

The court also heard Arlene had communications from a legal firm regarding a possible divorce settlement in May 1997 – almost a year before she disappeared.

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