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which had been identified at a young age. After her father died in 1995, Fleming began to live with a couple he had been close friends with and who he had named as her guardians in his will - Edward
Cairney and Avril Jones. Living with them at their house "Seacroft" in Inverkip, they became her
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Fleming was required to reapply for disability benefits. Jones completed an application form for new benefits on Fleming's behalf which raised concern. It was then discovered that no one from social services had been in contact with Fleming for 17 years. When neither
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Margaret's name. Despite a painstaking search of their dilapidated property and its junk-filled garden, no trace of Fleming's body has ever been found.
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about 500 metres (550 yd) to the south of the village. In 2017 the property was sold. In
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