Two men jailed for life for the "barbaric" murder of Glasgow businesswoman Lynda Spence have lost appeals against their conviction and sentence.
Appeal judges concluded there was "overwhelming evidence" Colin Coats and Philip Wade were guilty of the crime.
Coats, 43, was sentenced to a minimum of 33 years in April last year after a judge concluded he was the "prime mover" in the abduction, torture and killing of the 27-year-old.
Wade, also 43, was given at least 30 years behind bars after being convicted of the same charge at the High Court in Glasgow.
Ms Spence was reported missing in April 2011 and her body has never been found.
She ran a mortgage and property rental and sale business in Glasgow, but was in debt. She had become involved in fraudulent activity, for which she was being investigated by the police.
Coats had given her loans and believed she owed him £85,000.
Both men launched appeals claiming they were the victims of a miscarriage of justice.
Their legal teams said trial judge Lord Pentland was wrong to dismiss an objection to a line of evidence during the trial.
But appeal judges - Lord Justice General, Lord Gill, sitting with Lord Menzies and Lord Turnbull - agreed he had been entitled to refuse the objection.
Jurors had heard how Ms Spence was forced into a car in Broomhill Path, Glasgow, in 2011 and driven to Parker's property in West Kilbride, Ayrshire.
She was taped to a chair and tortured as Coats and Wade tried to extract financial information from her. She was burned with an iron, hit with a golf club, had her toes crushed, thumb cut off and little finger severed before being murdered and having her body disposed of, the court heard.
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