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Man to stand trial over murder of woman in 1994
Shona Stevens, with her daughter Candice as a baby, was killed in November 1994
A man is to stand trial over the murder of a woman in North Ayrshire more than 30 years ago.
Fraser Kilpatrick allegedly killed Shona Stevens, 31, after striking her with a hammer or similar weapon near her home in Irvine in November 1994.
The 68-year-old, who was charged over her death last year, also faces 15 other charges including the rape of a woman and a young girl between 1986 and 2001.
Kilpatrick denies the claims. Lord Arthurson set a date for the trial to begin in January 2028 at the High Court in Glasgow.
A further hearing is scheduled to take place in December this year.
Stevens, a mother of one, had been a student at what was then the University of Paisley.
She had walked through Bourtreehill Park to get to the nearby Co-op store at Bourtreehill Shopping Centre at about 13:10 on 10 November 1994.
On her walk back through the park, she was attacked and suffered severe head injuries.
Stevens was found in a wooded area near her home a short time afterwards and was taken to then Southern General Hospital in Glasgow.