A couple who has been missing were found in a car crashed, the man was dea'd and the woman critically injured they were found in a crashed car – three days after the accident was reported to police.
Lamara Bell, 25, and John Yuill, 28, were reported missing
on Sunday after they disappeared from a weekend camping trip.
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Officers found them yesterday morning in a crashed blue
Renault Clio. Mr Yuill was dea'd while Miss Bell was last night fighting for her
life in hospital after suffering serious injuries.
Police Scotland admitted that it had received a call
regarding a crashed car on Sunday, but had not followed it up. Last night, Miss
Bell's family were by her bedside in hospital while Mr Yuill's family were too
distraught to speak.
The couple were last seen at a camping trip at Loch Earn,
Perthshire, with Miss Bell's brother, Liam, his girlfriend and a friend, Paul
Mooney.
The group had reported the two missing after hearing a car
start at around 4.30am on Sunday.
Police Scotland launched an investigation to find the pair,
but neglected to follow up a crash on the M9 near Stirling, just miles away
from the pair's home in Falkirk, Stirlingshire.
Miss Bell has two children, a daughter aged nine, and a son
aged five, while Mr Yuill was a father of two young boys. The couple had
recently moved into a new home.
Mr Yuill had custody of his two sons who had been staying
with their mother in Edinburgh.
Earlier this week, Mr Yuill's father, Gordon, told the
Scottish Daily Mail he 'feared there has been an accident and they are lying
there'.
He added: 'He's in contact with his family every day, he
comes here every day. This is not like him at all. Lamara dotes on her kids,
they wouldn't just leave them.'
Mr Mooney, who had been camping with the couple, said that
they had heard the car early on Sunday, but thought the engine had been turned
back off. The group then woke at 9am and noticed Mr Yuill and Miss Bell were
gone.
On Monday. Mr Mooney said: 'We haven't slept at all, we are
just waiting for the police to call. We're in shock.'
Miss Bell's mother, Diane, had also urged her daughter to
come home and said she too feared the worst.
Last night, a neighbour said she was at hospital with her
daughter and was 'heartbroken'. The neighbour said: 'it's absolutely terrible
that they just left them lying there.'
An investigation into the circumstances is to be carried out
by the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner.
Assistant Chief Constable Kate Thomson of Police Scotland
said officers had been called to the M9 southbound near Junction 9 at about
9.50am yesterday. That followed a report of a one-car crash involving a Renault
Clio which had left the road.
The man driving the car had been pronounced dead at the
scene, while the woman passenger was taken to the Queen Elizabeth University
Hospital in Glasgow, where she is in a critical condition.' She added: 'We
believe that this is connected to the ongoing missing persons search for John
Yuill and Lamara Bell.
'As part of our investigation into this incident, it has
come to light that a call was made to police late on Sunday morning regarding a
car which was reported as being off the road. For reasons currently being
investigated, that report was not followed up at the time.
'A full investigation is currently under way to establish
the full circumstances of the incident.'
A PIRC spokesman said: 'The Crown Office and Procurator
Fiscal Service has directed the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner
to carry out an independent investigation into the circumstances surrounding
the death of a 28-year-old man and serious injury of a 25-year-old woman
following an incident at the M9 southbound near Junction 9 at Bannockburn on
July 8.'
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