Furnace

As you head towards Inveraray you pass through the village of Furnace. I illustrate this with a picture of one of the Furnace cottages. Some years ago a policeman and his wife lived in one of the cottages (not the one pictured). Obviously things were not entirely right with the marriage because one night in 1999 she killed him by shooting him in the head while he was asleep. She subsequently told the police that they had been attacked by masked intruders, but the jury didn't buy that and she was jailed for life for murder. Of interest to this blog is the fact that one of her grounds of appeal was that her counsel (Donald Findlay QC) was, during the course of the trial, the subject of substantial adverse publicity after he had been filmed apparently singing sectarian songs at a Rangers do. Her appeal was successful, though not on the Donald-does-karaoke ground - a re-trial was ordered - I don't know what happened at the re-trial. (if anyone knows they can leave a comment here). This was the most sensational event ever to occur in Furnace, apart from the time a cow escaped from a field and got half-way to Inveraray before being recaptured.