A house in Brechin where a young Lithuanian woman was brutally murdered is up for auction with an asking price of more than £160,000.
Earlsdon House was home to Jolanta Bledaite (35) when she was murdered and dismembered by two of her countrymen for her money.
Vita Plytnykas and Aleksandras Skirda, who disposed of her body in a suitcase at Arbroath harbour, are now serving long jail sentences.
The four-storey block of flats in Southesk Street has been a bleak reminder to the people of Brechin of the atrocity that put the Angus town on the map for all the wrong reasons.
The building was owned by Magnus Properties, which had Jolanta’s flat gutted and redecorated leaving no trace of what happened.
But the firm’s property leasing side went into administration in August and Earlsdon House will be sold by London property auctioneers on July 15.
The building, which in recent years housed mostly immigrant workers, has become a ghost tenement and locals have called for it to be razed to the ground to help them blot out what happened.
It comprises seven flats, only one of which is still lived in.
A spokesman for the Edinburgh agents acting on behalf of Allsop acknowledged that the property came “with a bit of baggage.”
Angus provost and local councillor Ruth Leslie Melville said that all options for the future of the house had to be considered and that could include redevelopment.
She said, “We have to move forward-there is no point in dwelling on the past.”