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TRAGIC CASE

Murder of Arlene Fraser: Scot whose husband, Nat Fraser, hired a hitman to kill in 1998

The Scots mum vanished from her home in Elgin, Morayshire, twenty years ago

ARLENE Fraser was last seen in her dressing gown waving kids Jamie and Natalie, then ten and five, off to school.

Her husband Nat Fraser, now 59, has since been found guilty of hiring a hitman to kill her on this day twenty years ago.

 Arlene Fraser
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Arlene FraserCredit: Handout

The Scots mum, 33, vanished in Elgin, Morayshire, on April 28, 1998.

But how she died has never been confirmed - and Arlene's dad has accepted he will never find out what actually happened to her.

Cops launched a missing person probe after the children returned to an empty house which didn't seem to have any sign of a struggle.

But it turned into one of the biggest probes in the former police force’s history.


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Fraser was originally jailed for murder in 2003 after his best pal Hector Dick turned on him in court.

That conviction was later quashed but Fraser was retried in 2012 and found guilty of paying a hitman £15,000 to kill Arlene while he was out at work.

 Nat Fraser at court in 2008
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Nat Fraser at court in 2008Credit: PA:Press Association
 Arlene's dad has accepted he won't ever find out what happened
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Arlene's dad has accepted he won't ever find out what happenedCredit: Ken Macpherson

He wanted to dodge a divorce that would have cost him £250,000 and custody of their kids.

He had claimed Arlene had ditched the family and vanished.

However it emerged he had nearly choked her to death in their home.

This incident happened just over a month before she disappeared.

Grim theories of what happened included Arlene's body was burnt to destroy evidence.

And one rumoured her body had been fed to pigs on an Aberdeenshire farm.

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