THE brutal murder of a Scots teenager who was set on fire is to be examined in a new documentary. 

Seventeen-year-old Zoe Nelson, from Newmains, was killed by her ex-boyfriend in May 2010.

Robert Bayne, 20, stabbed the Motherwell College student, put a plastic sheet over her face and set her on fire near Cambusnethan, Wishaw.

He was found guilty of her murder and of a second charge of attempting to defeat the ends of justice.

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In 2011, Bayne was sentenced to life imprisonment, with a minimum term of twenty years for the murder, and six years, to be served concurrently, for the second charge. 

During his trial, the court heard that residents reported seeing a fire in woods, known as Monkey Hill, before a member of the public found her badly burned body.

The shocking case is now set to feature on a new series of Crime+Investigation documentary Murdertown.

It will feature interviews with family and friends, as well as witnesses and police officers who worked on the case.

The third series of the show will begin on September 27.