SAUDI ARABIAN police have discovered a fingerprint from only one of the two British nurses, accused of killing an Australian colleague at the alleged murder scene, it was claimed yesterday, writes Rachel Borrill.
According to a London based Saudi newspaper, the only other fingerprints in Ms Yvonne Gilford's flat were her own.
The 55 year old nurse was stabbed four times, bludgeoned with a hammer and smothered in her room at the King Fahd military hospital, Dhahran, on December 11th.
Her colleagues, Ms Lucille McLauchlan (31), from Dundee, and Ms Deborah Parry (41), from Birmingham, were formally charged with her murder on Christmas Eve after it was alleged they were filmed using the victim's credit cards on a shopping spree.
Under Islamic law the women could be spared a public execution if Ms Gilford's family asked for clemency. Although Ms Gilford's brother, Frank, initially indicated he supported the death sentence, yesterday he implied he may intervene if necessary. "Certainly I would think about it, if it came to that," Mr Gilford said in Jamestown, South Australia.