abstract:Plean is a former mining town, in the Stirling Council area of central Scotland, located on the main A9 road from Falkirk. At the 2001 census, Plean had a population of 1,740.
The court heard that Marshall, from West Plean, Stirlingshire, had worked as a woodcutter after a court martial had discharged him from the Army for a series of assaults but he has had no convictions since then.