A MAN appeared in court yesterday following the discovery of the remains of a woman who went missing more than a year ago.
The remains of Samantha Wright, 25, were found by police in the garden of an address in Magdalene Drive, in the Duddingston area of Edinburgh, on Monday night.
Robert Chalmers, 57, was charged with attempting to defeat the ends of justice when he appeared in private at the city’s sheriff court.
Chalmers, from Edinburgh, made no plea or declaration.
The case was continued for further examination and he was remanded in custody.
Miss Wright was last seen alive after visiting a Jobcentre in the High Riggs area of Edinburgh on June 12 last year.
Miss Wright, originally from Stevenage, Herts, was registered as a missing person in January this year, after her family raised the alarm when she failed to contact them at Christmas or on her birthday.
