Charges pending in Beggs case

A room in the flat was redecorated

Police have confirmed that further charges are pending concerning the murder of Kilmarnock teenager Barry Wallace.

Thirty-eight-year old William Beggs was last week sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering Mr Wallace and then dismembering his body in 1999.

Reports have been submitted to the procurator fiscal in Kilmarnock concerning two women aged 75 and 65, and a man aged 66.

It is understood that those involved are Beggs' mother and father, and another female relative.

William Beggs had previous convictions

They may be charged with attempting to pervert the court of justice due to their alleged involvement in the redecoration of a room in the flat where Barry Wallace was murdered.

Beggs took him back to his flat where he sexually assaulted him.

Barry Wallace was then murdered by Beggs who dismembered his body, leaving the parts in Loch Lomond and throwing his head into the sea off Troon.

After the majority verdict at the High Court in Edinbugh, it was revealed that Beggs, originally from Northern Ireland, was once cleared of a similar murder by appeal court judges on a technicality.

Beggs was jailed in 1987 at Teeside Crown Court for murdering a barman he met in a gay nightclub by slashing his throat, only to have the conviction overturned by the Court of Appeal.

He was also jailed for six years in 1991 for slashing the leg of a man who escaped by jumping through a glass window.

Police had previously described Beggs as a "serial killer in the making".