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Appeal in case of 250-year-old murder behind Kidnapped

Nearly 250 years after the killing of a government agent in the Highlands, the Scottish Criminal Case Review Commission has been asked to look again at the facts and put right what is regarded as one of the country�s earliest miscarriages of justice.

DAVID ROSS and IAIN GRANT

It may prove to be one of the oldest murder cases ever to be re-examined by Scotland's legal authorities.