An Aberdeen firm used its state-of-the-art crime scene analysis technology to investigate an infamous medieval crime at Stirling Castle this weekend.
Return To Scene took its R2S Forensic high definition 360-degree spherical photography system to Stirling Castle to analyse the brutal murder of William, 8th Earl of Douglas, as part of a Scottish crime writers festival, Bloody Scotland.
The company, owned by SeaEnergy, mainly focuses on delivering its technology to the oil and gas industry. Recently it revealed R2s had made £1million profit in the first half of the year.
R2S maintains a division developed with forensic investigators that has been instrumental to law enforcers.
The firm’s technology was used in the case against north-east wife killer Malcolm Webster.
And R2S’s crime visualisation technology was key to the prosecution of Mark Simpson, who was jailed for at least 20 years in 2010 after being convicted of killing his girlfriend’s six-week-old daughter, Alexis Matheson.
Laura Fairley, Forensic Examiner at Return To Scene said:
“Return To Scene has been involved with the festival previously and we are particularly excited to have worked with Historic Scotland to tackle this infamous murder, and doing so in the setting of the actual crime, Stirling Castle.
“The idea behind the event was to juxtapose our cutting-edge technology, R2S, and this notorious medieval crime, providing something a little different for the festival-goers.”