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Suzanne Pilley (1972–May 2010) was a 38-year-old British bookkeeper from Edinburgh, Scotland, who went missing on the morning of 4 May 2010. Following a highly publicised appeal for information on her whereabouts and intensive police enquiries, her former lover, David Gilroy, was arrested and charged with her murder. He was found guilty by majority verdict on 15 March 2012 and sentenced to life imprisonment. The case is controversial because the prosecution obtained a murder conviction without a body. The body of Suzanne Pilley has never been found. ==Background and disappearance== On 4 May 2010, Suzanne Pilley was making her way to the offices of Infrastructure Managers Ltd in Thistle Street, Edinburgh, where she worked as a bookkeeper. As part of her routine she would often call into the St Andrew Square branch of Sainsbury's en route to work. At 8.51 am she was seen on CCTV leaving Sainsbury's. At 8.54 am she was seen on CCTV on North St David Street, about to turn into Thistle Street. This was to be the last public sighting of her, she failed to turn up for work. On the afternoon of 4 May 2010 she was reported missing to Lothian and Borders Police by her parents Robert and Sylvia Pilley. On 11 May 2010, Lothian and Borders Police initiated a high-profile public appeal for information, utilising digital screens erected in the centre of Edinburgh, playing footage of Suzanne's last known whereabouts. They issued a statement saying that they believed Suzanne may have been the victim of a 'criminal act'. On 18 May 2010, Ms Pilley's employers issued a statement saying that her disappearance 'was completely out of character'. The following day, police issued a statement saying that they were now treating the enquiry as a murder investigation. On 20 May 2010, it was reported in the press that police had expanded their investigation to a 400 sq mile area of Argyll, stretching from Tyndrum to Inveraray and the Argyll Forest. It was said that they were keen to trace the movements of a silver vehicle driven by a man on remote roads across Argyll and Bute on the afternoon of 5 May 2010. On 23 June 2010, David Gilroy, a colleague and former boyfriend of Suzanne Pilley's was detained by Lothian and Borders Police under section 14 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 in connection with her disappearance. Later that day he was arrested and charged with her murder. On 24 June 2010, Gilroy appeared on petition, in private at Edinburgh Sheriff Court, charged with the murder of Suzanne Pilley and various other offences relating to her disappearance. He made no plea or declaration. A petition for bail was lodged and granted by Sheriff Deirdre MacNeill QC. On 1 July 2010, Gilroy appeared on petition, in private at Edinburgh Sheriff Court for judicial examination. Thereafter he was fully committed for trial. A second petition for bail was lodged and granted by Sheriff Nigel Morrison QC. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Murder of Suzanne Pilley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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