No appeal for man convicted of Jenny Methven murder THE MAN who murdered Perthshire pensioner Jenny Methven in a savage killing that "appalled a nation" has abandoned a bid to clear his name. Deadline now passed for appeal submission Jenny Metheven was found dead in her Perthshire home in February last year William Kean, 47, was convicted at the High Court in Glasgow last August of beating the "kindly" 80 year-old widow to death in her own kitchen. Kean struck her 11 times with such ferocity that Mrs Methven's skull fractured from one side to the other. Kean was sentenced to life imprisonment and ordered to serve at least 22 years before being eligible for parole. Last September Kean's lawyers intimated Kean's intention to appeal against his conviction and sentence. But the High Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh has now confirmed that the deadline has passed for the paperwork to be handed in to continue the legal appeal process . A spokesman for the High Court of Justiciary said: "No appeal has been lodged but they could in the future come back and try to get an extension which would have to go before a judge." Mrs Methven was found slumped at her kitchen table with a bloodstained towel over her head in February last year by her son, David, at the cottage they shared at Kildinny Farm on the outskirts of the Perthshire village of Forteviot. She had been battered to death with a blunt instrument. Investigation Her killing sparked one of the biggest murder investigations in the history of Tayside Police. Speaking last August, following Kean's conviction, Detective Chief Inspector Colin Gall, who led the Tayside Police investigation, said: "This was a crime that shocked a small rural community and appalled the nation as a whole. We were all horrified that a woman in her eighties could meet with so violent a death. Mrs Methven was a well-known, well-liked and much-respected member of the local community who was devoted to her son David and her two-year-old spaniel Kyle.  He added: "William Kean has offered a version of events that bears no resemblance to the reality of what happened. He has compounded the suffering for Mrs Methven's son. Not only did he murder David's mother, he betrayed his friendship and then sought to incriminate him for his mother's death. I am pleased that the jury rejected his claims and have ensured that justice is served. I hope that Jenny's family and friends can draw some solace from the fact that Kean will now pay for his actions. Jenny's murder brought attention from across the UK, but at the heart of this crime was a family tragedy - the violent death of an 80-year-old woman in the home she shared with her loving son David.