The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
Death of charity worker: Woman appears in court
Angela Newlands of Inchture accused of murder near Dunning
A woman has appeared in court accused of murdering a young charity worker at a monument in Perthshire.
Annalise Johnstone was found dead by the side of the B8062 between Auchterarder and Dunning three months ago.
Angela Newlands appeared on petition at Perth Sheriff Court yesterday.
The 28-year-old, from Inchture, is accused of assaulting Miss Johnstone, repeatedly striking her on the neck, cutting her neck with a sharp implement and murdering her.
It allegedly happened at the Maggie Wall memorial near Dunning.
Newlands made no plea during the brief private hearing before Sheriff William Wood. She was remanded pending a bail appeal.
Newlands is the second person to appear in court charged with 22-yearold Miss Johnstone’s murder.
Her brother Jordan Johnstone faces a similar murder allegation and has been fully committed for trial.
Miss Johnstone’s body was found by a member of the public on May 10.
The discovery sparked a major police investigation across Tayside, with at least 11 locations sealed off.
A car recovered as part of the probe was found near Newlands’ home in Green Julian Place.
Miss Johnstone, a member of the Ardrossan Travelling community had been driven to the Auchterarder area the night before she was found dead.
The Maggie’s Wall monument, just outside Dunning, became a focus of the investigation.
Police were seen carrying out a fingertip search around the stone cross and cairn, which had been partly covered with a black tarpaulin.
The monument gained notoriety during the trial of Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley.
It emerged the pair had visited the site during their killing spree, and photographs of them posing next to the stone cross during a holiday in Scotland were published in newspapers, prompting headlines comparing Hindley to a witch.
The memorial, which sits at the roadside about half-a-mile south-west of Dunning, is the only monument of its kind in Scotland dedicated to a single “witch”, although there is no evidence Maggie Wall even existed.
During their investigation police cordoned off properties in nearby Auchterarder and visited the Toolstation store on King’s Cross Road, Dundee.
The B8062 stretch where Miss Johnstone’s body was found had been sealed off for more than two weeks.