Sheila Garvie - Mastermind or Victim

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But now, a new book suggests that the police ignored many of the signs of gaslighting and other indignities which Mrs Garvie endured – and while it doesn’t argue there was a miscarriage of justice, highlights the desperate lengths to which she was prepared to go to be free of her husband’s iron grip. The Garvies were flamboyant. Max with his plane and his cars. Sheila dressed in the best of fashion, short skirts and tight tops from Carnaby Street showing her fine figure to advantage. Even in that area of large estates and farms, the neighbours were beginning to notice Due to her affairs, divorce lawyers in Aberdeen failed to help her pointing out she too was an "adulteress" and deserved no sympathy with her local minister encouraging her to stay with her abusive spouse. Sheila Garvie had worked as a housemaid at Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire (Image: myLoupe/Getty) 'She certainly managed to fool the police'

Max had been getting bored for some time. Described as a farmer, he was more of a manager with other people doing the work and him reaping substantial profits. First fast cars filled his time, then a private aeroplane. Sordid - was how judges, lawyers and the media described the trial at Aberdeen High Court on November 19, 1968. As the sexual shenanigans unfolded, Sheila Garvie and Brian Tevendale blamed each other.

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The Garvie's had two daughters and a son together appearing to have an idyllic life at their luxurious farmhouse at West Cairnbeg near Fourdoun, Kincardineshire. Tevendale and a workmate drove to West Cairnbeg in the early hours of May 15, 1968 - before Max Garvie was killed from a single shot from his own rifle.

She thought her husband was there. I had never seen her like that before. As soon as someone said his name, she was absolutely petrified. She never went into detail of what he made her do. Just that she didn’t like it, she didn’t want to do it but he had made her do it.” Garvie was an office bearer in the SNP. There he met a handsome young man, 20-year-old Brian Tevendale. Max had already had a few affairs with young men and was certainly attracted to Tevendale but he had other plans for him. Sheila made the mistake of pretending her husband had disappeared instead of informing the police. It led to her resuming her affair with Brian Tevendale but, after three months she confided in her mother Edith who immediately went to the police.He also was said to have had the casual affair with men, women and set up his own nude colony at a property he rented in Alford, Aberdeenshire, which was dubbed the 'kinky cottage' by locals. Related Articles Much of the newspaper coverage portrayed Mrs Garvie as a modern-day Lady Macbeth, an arch manipulator who had plotted the killing of her husband so she could run away with Tevendale, who was 11 years her junior. The man who dealt the final blow married and became the landlord of a pub in Perthshire. He died in 2003.