The Courier & Advertiser (Perth and Perthshire Edition)
Fatal accident inquiry into wife killer who died in jail
COURT: Harry Jarvis was found dead in his prison cell last year
A sheriff is to hold a probe into the death of a notorious killer who murdered his wife and buried her under the floorboards of their home.
Harry Jarvis hid his mistress in his garden shed before murdering his spouse Carol and left her decaying body in the cellar in 2009.
He claimed his wife had travelled to Dundee, where his daughter was a student.
His lover, Jus-Rol pastry heiress Rita Heyster, who was living in the garden hut, helped him to conceal the body at his home in Bathgate, West Lothian.
Jarvis, 67, was found dead in his cell at Addiewell prison in West Lothian in April last year.
The Crown Office has now announced that a fatal accident inquiry into the circumstances surrounding his death will be held at Livingston Sheriff Court next month.
Jarvis and Heyster were charged with murder after mother-of-four Carol’s body was discovered.
Her decomposing body was found taped up in a duvet in the basement of her home in Balbardie Crescent, Bathgate.
Carol, 47, who had several medical problems, was reported missing by her children.
They did not believe their father’s account she had taken a trip to Dundee or gone into respite care.
Jarvis was jailed for a minimum of 15 years in 2011.
Heyster, from Coldstream in the Borders, inherited a £2.5 million fortune from her adopted father, Jus-Rol founder Tommy Forsyth.
But she fell on hard times and blew the cash before starting an affair with Jarvis.
She was jailed for four-and-a-half years for helping to conceal Carol’s body, even claiming to be his wife to police.
In 2015, the pair planned to marry behind bars but just a month later Heyster called off the wedding.
The fatal accident inquiry will be heard on April 27.