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New Appin murder investigation reveals Jacobites plotted to kill Colin Campbell Postmortem reports and modern analysis point to close-range assassination

MODERN detective methods have been applied to one of Scotland's greatest historical mysteries in a new book which suggests that the Appin murder was not the work of one man, but a carefully conceived Jacobite plot.

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