Human remains found during a search for a Perthshire man buried in the Carse of Gowrie have still to be identified, two weeks after they were found.
Part of a human leg was discovered by police officers on Monday September 18 at Muiredge Farm, Inchcoonans, near Errol Brickworks, in what was the latest dig to try to locate the body of Adam Alexander.
Mr Alexander was killed in 1999. Thomas Pryde, of Scone, was jailed for 10 years at Edinburgh High Court in 2010 after he admitted the culpable homicide of Mr Alexander.
Pryde later confessed to his then wife Angela that he had killed the former lorry driver and buried his body in an unmarked grave near Errol Brickworks.
Following the find of the human bone two weeks ago, officers found skeletal human remains the following day and these were taken to the police mortuary in Dundee.
A specialist team led by Dundee University’s Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification, including well-known forensic anthropologist Professor Sue Black has sifted through the finds.
The tests have included DNA matching and dental recognition.
Two weeks since the human left fibula was found, a police source yesterday told The Courier that identification of the skeleton may take until later this week.
Mr Alexander’s mother Mrs Tricia Bremner said last week that she is not ”100% convinced” that the remains are her son’s and, even if they are, she aims to seek an independent opinion.
”If it turns out to be Adam I’ll have to accept it but I’m not sure the police even dug in the right field,” she said.
”The remains will have to be sifted through in minute detail with DNA tests done. Even then, I’m still planning to get someone else to go over the human remains.
”Adam will always be in my head and my heart. Every day I think of him.”