The discovery of Moira Jones's savagely-beaten, partially-clothed body in Glasgow's Queens Park sent shockwaves through the city.

What made the brutal rape and murder of the "lovely" businesswoman all the more chilling was that it happened close to her home, in a beauty spot used by thousands of people every year.

From the outset, detectives could not understand why anyone would want to harm Ms Jones.

The popular and intelligent 40-year-old moved from Stafford to Glasgow in 2003 with her job as a sales adviser for soft drinks firm Britvic.

Described as an "impeccable" employee, she had settled well and was said to love the city.

Ms Jones was attacked on May 28 last year, shortly after she parked her car yards from her flat on Queens Drive.

She was taken into Queens Park and assaulted before being dragged deeper into the heart of the park, where her ordeal continued.

Her body was found the following morning by a horrified park ranger in a secluded area of the park, concealed behind a privet hedge.

Strathclyde Police launched a murder investigation and the park was sealed off while forensic experts carried out painstaking searches of the undergrowth.

In the days that followed more than 1,000 people in the area were questioned, CCTV footage was released of Ms Jones and her family made an emotional appeal for information.

Marek Harcar first came to the police's attention when officers spoke to Queens Drive resident Lucie Pechtlova as part of their inquiries.

She told them that Harcar, a Slovakian national, had moved from Liverpool to Glasgow 10 days before Ms Jones's death and had been staying in her flat.

Ms Pechtlova said Harcar had spent most of his time watching television and drinking.

She said he left the flat on the night of May 28 in a "drunken state", saying he was going to go to a disco and then "go and find whores".

The next day his demeanour had changed and she said he seemed "scared of something".

On June 1, Harcar fled the country, getting a flight from Britain to the Czech Republic, then travelling to Slovakia.

A European Arrest Warrant was granted and he was detained by police in the village of Nalepkovo.

Harcar was said to be "calm and cooperative" when he was arrested.

He agreed to be extradited to Scotland, telling police: "I am innocent."

During Harcar's trial, harrowing details of the attack on Ms Jones were revealed.

The jury was told she had received at least 65 injuries during a "sustained and repeated attack" and was shown photographs of her lying in the park.

She was missing a tooth, her clothes were torn and she was covered in leaves and other debris.

Her personal belongings, including mobile phones, a hairbrush, a laptop cable and business cards were found scattered around her body and in other areas of the park.

Ms Jones was supposed to be staying at her boyfriend Paul Thompson's flat on the night of May 28, but they fell out and she went home.

During his evidence in court, Mr Thompson described his girlfriend as a "fantastic, loving, lovely person".

Britvic co-worker Mark Violet also paid tribute to Ms Jones, saying she was a "first-class" colleague.

Other witnesses described hearing screams coming from the park on the night of the murder.

Taxi driver Frederick Graham said he had told his partner as they walked past the park: "If someone's been murdered, we've just heard it."

Art director Steven Hanson was walking his dog in the park when he heard a female voice scream: "Stop it" and a male voice he described as Eastern European.

Mr Hanson said he saw a man sitting looking into a bush, smoking a cigarette.

He later left the park, after expressing his concerns to another dog walker, but was still troubled.

"The thought went through my mind that all it takes for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing," he said.

Forensic evidence showed DNA samples found on Ms Jones matched Harcar's profile and the chances of the samples being from another male were more than one in a billion.

Further DNA matches were found on a cigarette butt and the back of a mobile phone found in the park.

A man matching Harcar's description was also captured on CCTV footage walking in the Queens Park area on the night of the murder.

After his arrest, he continued to protest his innocence, insisting the charges against him were "invented" and that he "didn't do it".

He lodged special defences of alibi and incrimination, claiming that if the crime was committed, it was carried out by Jason Mulheron and brothers Mohammed Abubaker Karim, 21, and Mohammed Umar Karim, 22.

The court was told convicted sex attacker Mulheron was high on drink and drugs near the park on the night of the murder.

It also heard that the Karim brothers had broken into Ms Jones's car on the night she was murdered and stolen her credit card.