Mum believes killer couldn’t bear the thought his family would then know he’d lied about the murder all along
BY CHARLIE GALL c.gall@dailyrecord.co.uk
ARLENE Fraser’s sister has urged the murdered mother’s husband to reveal what he did with her body.
Carol Gillies broke an eight-year silence to speak in support of Suzanne’s Law – a campaign to force killers to give up their grisly secrets before being considered for parole.
But in a joint interview with STV’s Scotland Tonight, Arlene’s mum Isabelle Thompson added that she doesn’t believe her son-in-law Nat Fraser will ever end their torture.
She said: “If he was to admit to where Arlene’s body is, that’s admitting to his family that all these years they’ve thought the wrong thing.
“They’ve thought he’s innocent – and he’s been guilty – and that’s basically the reason I think that he will never let us know where she is.
“Although I think Suzanne’s Law is a very good thing, I don’t think it will work with Nat Fraser.”
Former businessman Fraser, now 61, is serving life with a minimum term of 17 years after being convicted of masterminding his wife’s murder.
Arlene, 33, vanished from the family’s home in Elgin in April 1998 after waving the couple’s son and daughter off to school.
Fraser was found guilty in 2003 of the murder plot.
After being freed on appeal, his conviction was quashed in 2011. But he was retried the next year and sent back to jail.
Fraser has refused to admit his guilt and has tortured Arlene’s family by denying them a body to bury.
Carol vowed never to talk about her brother-inlaw again after he was convicted of Arlene’s murder for a second time.
But backing the campaign named after Edinburgh murder victim Suzanne Pilley, 38, whose ex-lover David Gilroy has never revealed her whereabouts after killing her in 2010, she said of Fraser: “Everybody knows that he’s lying, so stop playing games.”
Carol added: “If he was up for parole next week and they said, ‘Oh, you’ve been a model prisoner, there you go, you’re released, have a nice life’, where does that leave us? We continue to live the sentence.
“If you are withholding information, something really important, a body, surely he is continuing to commit a crime against us?
“This is where I think there needs to be a change in the law.”