Moira Anderson was 11 when she went missing from her home in Coatbridge, in 1957, while she was running an errand for her grandmother Universal News And Sport (Europe)Police have revealed they are optimistic that the body of Moira Anderson may finally be found 60 years after she disappeared. The schoolgirl was 11 when she went missing from her home in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, in 1957, while she was running an errand for her grandmother. In 2014 prosecutors took the unprecedented step of announcing that Alexander Gartshore, a bus driver and convicted paedophile who died in 2006, would have been charged with her murder if he were still alive. Police confirmed yesterday that they had identified a stretch of canal, close to where Moira was last seen, as the site where they believe her body may have been dumped. A search will begin at the Monkland Canal, and Patrick Campbell, a detective superintendent…

Source: The Times March 15, 2017 00:58 UTC