The death of Dorothy Niven is one of the most baffling ever investigated by police in Glasgow.
It led to a man being convicted of her murder then freed on appeal five years later – with the victim’s family later being refused an inquiry into her death after a lengthy court battle.
However, local prosecutor David Green who was present at the post-mortem in Glasgow's city mortuary was not as satisfied. However, Karling blamed a new boyfriend for the alleged murder and claimed Dorothy was alive when he left her.The victim's mother, Ivy Niven, from Mount Vernon, claimed Karling had once thrown her daughter into a bath of cold water in his house in Ayr.When they first started going out together, Karling was the general manager of a large television retail firm in Ayrshire.
Asked by defence lawyer Hugh Matthews why he had shown little emotion in the witness box, Karling replied: “My tears are inside me.''The key evidence had been a Glasgow University drug test that found the sedative temazepam in Dorothy’s blood. They had since learned of a blood test carried out at Guy’s Hospital in London which revealed there had not been any temazepam present in Dorothy's blood stream at the time of her death.
At this point the Crown Office agreed there had been a miscarriage of justice and said they would not contest the appeal.After he left the court Karling, now 48, who had spent five years in jail, said: ''I'm still on cloud nine. It's total euphoria.''
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