Christopher Harrisson convicted of 1978 Brenda Page murder

The 32-year-old genetic scientist was found dead with at least 20 injuries to her head and face

He’d evaded justice for 45 years but tonight Christopher Harrisson is beginning a life sentence for the brutal murder of his former wife Brenda Page in a ‘sustained and vicious’ attack at her Aberdeen flat in 1978.

82-year-old Harrisson always denied killing her. At the High Court in Aberdeen, a jury took just over three hours to find him guilty of murder.

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