Fife Man Found Guilty Of Murdering His Mother
A man has been found guilty of murdering his mother and disposing of her body under a caravan in Fife.
A Fife man has been jailed for 18 years after being found guilty of murdering his own mother.
Ross Target strangled 54 year old Carol-Anne Taggart to death after an argument just before Christmas last year.
You can listen to the moment he called the Police here:
The 31 year old was also convicted for attempting to pervert the course of justice after he hid his mother's body within a caravan park in Pettycur Bay, Kinghorn.
Taggart denied he had killed his mother, claiming: "I didn't kill my mum. I am the last person that would lift my hands to my mum."
A judge told him: "How you have lived with your conscience since you murdered your mother, I do not know."
Lord Uist said: "You have been convicted by the unanimous verdict of the jury of the terrible crime of the murder of your own mother, a woman who did a great deal, indeed probably too much, for you in the course of her life."
"In the course of an argument on December 21 or 22 last year you caused her head injuries and throttled her to death. You thereafter embarked on a calculated course of deceit by reporting her as missing to the police and persistently lying about your actions," he said.
Within hours of taking his mother's life Taggart had arranged for "a casual sexual encounter" with a woman previously unknown to him.
The judge said: "You have shown no regret or remorse and continued to deny your involvement before the jury in the face of overwhelming and unanswerable evidence."
He added that at times Taggart's response to the evidence in the case was "ludicrous".