The Crown is still considering the case against a man accused of murdering the head of a notorious “family from hell”.
Barry Henderson was arrested by police earlier this year, after a fresh investigation into a flat fire which killed Gordon Graham 20 years ago.
Mr Graham’s wife, Anne, only managed to escape from the first-floor property on Fraserburgh’s High Street after climbing through a window.
In February, Henderson appeared in private at Peterhead Sheriff Court accused of murdering Mr Graham and attempting to kill his wife.
He made no plea and released on bail.
But last night, a spokeswoman for the Crown revealed that no decision has yet been made on when to recall the 41-year-old’s case.
Mr Graham’s family declined to comment last night.
The father-of-five’s body was found in the flat in the early hours of Sunday, May 3, 1998.
It was originally thought that the blaze was an accident, but an investigation into Mr Graham’s death was reopened in 2009.
The Grahams were dubbed the “family from hell” by neighbours when they lived at Glenrothes.
They were evicted from their home in the Fife town in 1994 after a string of complaints from other residents.
Mr and Mrs Graham moved to the north-east with their children Dean, David, Heather and Sharon.
Eldest son James also joined them after being released from a young offenders institution.
He had been sentenced to five years for knocking down former beauty queen Pauline McConnachie in a stolen car outside her home on Christmas Eve 1994. She lost a leg as a result.
He served two-thirds of his sentence, but died in 2002 aged 26 following a car crash near Rosehearty.
James’s 18-year-old brother, Dean, died a year earlier.