A Fife woman who was left fighting for survival following a New Year’s Day arson attack which killed her boyfriend is said to be on the road to recovery.
Family and friends of Rebecca Williams, who is known as Bex, have been heartened by news from doctors at Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital that her condition has improved over the weekend, with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde now describing her condition as “serious” rather than “critical”.
Detectives are anxiously waiting to speak to the 24-year-old as they continue to investigate the blaze, which was started deliberately in the early hours of January 1 at the family home of her boyfriend Cameron Logan in Milngavie, East Dunbartonshire.
Cameron, 23, and the family’s dog Gomez both died in the fire at the property in Achray Place, while Cameron’s parents David and Cathy, both 54, were treated for smoke inhalation and later released.
The Logans’ other son, Blair, was not home at the time.
Exactly a week on from the fire, police officers were out and about in the streets surrounding the burnt out semi-detached house on Sunday morning stopping drivers in the hope of unearthing some clues which may lead to the culprit’s capture.
Those leading the investigation hope the “stop and speak” operation, carried out between 6.30am and 8.30am on Sunday, would help trace people who had been in the area at the time of the blaze and hopefully generate fresh leads.
Officers could also be seen searching woodland and waterways near the fire-hit house over the weekend.
Bex, who hails from Wormit, attended Madras College in St Andrews and completed a BA (Hons) degree in multimedia journalism at Glasgow Caledonian University in 2014.
Since then she has been making a name for herself in radio journalism and has worked as a broadcast journalist with Global Radio, which owns the likes of Capital, Heart, Smooth and LBC, for just over two-and-a-half years.
Prior to that she had gained work experience with a whole host of media outlets, including Radio Clyde, the BBC and Fife’s Kingdom FM, and colleagues have spoken about how she was driven to work her way up the career ladder.
Dundee-born DJ and journalist Jim Gellatly worked alongside Bex when she read the news at XFM Scotland and described her as a “lovely girl and great fun”.
“My thoughts and prayers are with her,” he added.
Last week, Bex’s dad Phill took to social media to thank well-wishers, adding that his daughter was “fighting hard”.
