Police begin exhuming family grave in search for body of schoolgirl

Police begin exhuming family grave in search for body of schoolgirl, 11, who went missing 56 years ago as daughter of prime suspect arrives at cemetery



By James Tozer

PUBLISHED: 07:09 EST, 8 January 2013 | UPDATED: 21:09 EST, 8 January 2013



Police searching for the body of an 11-year-old girl who vanished while running an errand in 1957 began exhuming a grave yesterday.

Moira Anderson is believed to have been abducted and murdered after catching a bus, but no trace of her has ever been found.

Yesterday, almost 56 years after the Scottish schoolgirl was last seen, forensic experts began excavating a grave to see if her remains were hidden there.

Convicted paedophile Alexander Gartshore, who was a bus driver in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, when Moira went missing, was later accused of the murder by his own daughter.

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