TAYSIDE POLICE will this week launch a fresh appeal for information into the murder of Carol Lannen, whose body was found in Templeton Woods, Dundee, almost exactly 29 years ago.

The 18-year-old’s body was found in the woods on March 22, 1979, and almost a year before the discovery of the body of Elizabeth McCabe in the same area.

Vincent Simpson was acquitted of Ms McCabe’s murder at the High Court in Edinburgh in December last year after an eight-week trial.

At the trial forensic pathologist Professor Anthony Busuttil said that although the cause of death was strangulation in both cases, there were marked differences in the manner of their deaths.

Both women had been strangled, but Carol Lannen’s death had been “a calculated and determined act” while Elizabeth McCabe’s has been “something that just happened.”

Operation Trinity, which was set up to investigate both “cold cases,” still continues into the murder of Carol.

Detective Chief Inspector Ewen West will provide an update on inquiries to the media tomorrow

Last year detectives learned that in the mid 1970s Carol was friendly with a man, thought to be called Roger, who lived in a flat in Main Street near the junction of Dens Road.