In the period leading up to his death, he was tortured by being hit with a hammer and having his back stamped or kneeled on, suffering broken ribs as a consequence. He had been walking home after a night out drinking and was attacked at around 12.20, The 51-year-old taxi driver vanished on 3 February and his Ford Sierra was found abandoned with bloodstains inside it in a car park at Heathrow Airport (some miles from. Business tycoon Richard Watson, 54, was shot dead by an unknown gunman as he arrived home on the evening of 10 December. A man was charged but the case was later dropped. There was concern when he did not arrive for work the following day and, that evening, his flat at Foster Court, Clapham Park Road, was deliberately set on fire. Convicted serial rapist David Williams was acquitted of her murder in 1993. The 50s and 60s was a time of mass migration as people from the tenements moved out to the brave new worlds of Castlemilk, Easterhouse and Drumchapel. Two men were charged with his murder, but one of them had the charge dropped when he agreed to . The discovery of Tracey Wylde's body at her flat. Four men were found guilty of murder and conspiracy to rob, but the convictions were overturned in 1998. Three men were cleared of his murder. Glasgow-born Brady was a serial killer who murdered multiple children with his girlfriend Myra Hindly between 1963 and 1965, in and around Manchester in England. Her murder was featured on. The victim's head hit the kerb as she fell from the moving vehicle, and another member of the public chased after the culprit as he ran away empty-handed. Exasperated police in Glasgow decided to rethink strategy. Dunblane massacre in 1996: Thomas Hamilton shoots dead 16 school children and their teacher before turning the gun on himself. Janine had been a sex worker and was last seen alive in Wolverhampton's red-light district. A 22-year-old man who was a cousin of Iqbal's minder was tried for the murder after the minder's lover claimed to have seen him leaving the murder scene while looking out of a window. The danger facing street prostitutes became part of national debate when Diane McInally was murdered in Glasgow in 1991. Foley had survived being shot at ten days before his murder. She had worked in the St Lukes Street red-light area of the city, which was near to where she lived. Scottish police have been bold, theyve been progressive in a way that has not happened in the city of Glasgow before, said Alistair Fraser, a criminology lecturer at the University of Glasgow and author of a book on gang identity. The trio were caged for the brutal. You cannot arrest your way out of this problem, said Niven Rennie, director of the now-national Scottish VRU, a unit funded by the government with a budget of $1.6million this year. She had suffered catastrophic injuries consistent with falling from height or being hit by a car, and her clothing was missing. Stephanie Millrine pushed two elderly people back into their chairs and swore at another vulnerable service user after they declined a biscuit from the care assistant. Stuffed cookie favourite Chulo's launched in the Finnieston area with the pair now located in the former Guitar Workshop of 936 Argyle Street. Christine lived alone with her dog and was last seen at 6:30, The same individual is thought to have murdered these two men. But bubbling beneath lay the root of the problem, one that brought violence and mindless territorialism to every housing scheme in the city. GLASGOW, Scotland Jonathan has scars from his former life. [34], On 21 January 2013, the 20th anniversary of the murder, police announced they were reviewing the case and hoped that advances in forensic analysis and DNA profiling would bring the killer to justice. Now, Yousaf said, theres not a place in Glasgow that I wouldnt go to.. Growing up in Glasgow, there were places you absolutely didnt venture, Humza Yousaf, Scotlands justice secretary, said as he sipped tea at the recent opening of the citys second Street and Arrow cafe, staffed by former gang members and people deemed at risk of offending. Talbot was murdered on 9 September 1998 and discovered in a pond having been strangled. Fraser said the VRU has been successful at changing the narrative about crime, but he was hesitant about more concrete results. It was thought that he had kept large sums of money at his home and a watch and gold sovereign rings were later found to be missing from the property, which had been ransacked. The thought that someone would to want to fight someone purely because they stay in another area of the same city is now thankfully a completely alien and absurd concept to most of todays generation. The attempt ended in failure. Some of the punches he threw landed on police officers. In October 1991 a body was discovered in woodland off Broxmead Lane in Bolney, Sussex. Murder and rape man i gets life A MAN who raped and murdered a Glasgow girl was sentenced to life imprisonment at the High Court, Glasgow . Jack Royal, 58, was shot dead with a shotgun in the porch of his house on 19 March 1990. Going to the . The 29-year-old panel beater's mother found his body in their back garden during the afternoon of 10 March. Scottish police plucked ideas from the Cure Violence project in Chicago, Bostons Operation Ceasefire and Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, among other initiatives. George Murray, 33, and Scott McClymont, 22, have been caged for a total of 12 years and e Hugh Robb Ord's bludgeoned body was found on 15 April on a footpath just behind his flat on Springhill Walk. 50-year-old Dunning was killed by unknown means between 13 and 16 April 1994, and is listed as a victim of unsolved murder by, Karen Reed, 33, was shot on her doorstep at 31 Willow Way, Woking, at 9:15. His wife was in the house watching. 36-year-old William Toye was fatally stabbed in prison while serving a sentence for killing a man to stop him from testifying against his brother. Boy George, Pete Tong, Judge Jules and other leading lights of . The 32-year-old drug dealer was abducted and forced to drink petrol. A reconstruction was featured on. The shop owner was a retired actor and had appeared in the hospital soap opera, 23-year-old Andrew Smith was discovered stabbed to death beside the Forth and Clyde Canal at. Jurors cleared two brothers of the murder of the Turkish drug dealer, who had been shot on Monday, 11 March first inside a betting shop, then again in the street after leaving the building. On his release in 2004, he returned to Scotland. This conviction was quashed in 2004 and a retrial was ordered. A head injury that 39-year-old Roger Foster suffered when he was pushed over outside a pub on 22 May caused his death two days later, leading to the launch of a murder inquiry. 56-year-old Dunn was found dead with serious head injuries in a lay-by. In 2004/05 there were 137 homicides (which include murder and culpable homicide figures) in Scotland - in Glasgow, there were 40 cases alone, double the national rate. Liam Campbell completed the Kiltwalk alongside his daughter Rosie, who was with five holes in her heart and a narrowing of the aorta when she was just two-months old. Beatrice's daughter, Patricia Bass, was convicted of her mother's murder but the conviction was quashed in 1996 and a retrial ordered. Joy Hewer, 52, was stabbed and sexually assaulted at her own home on 17 October 1995. They're the nicknames, or nommes de guerres, of three of the most violent and dangerous gangsters who ever picked up a blade, a handgun or a machete. Glasgow Live series first published in November 2016. A man faced trial for the 31-year-old's murder, but the jury was instructed to find him not guilty of the crime when no further evidence was offered against him by the prosecution. The murder took place on 27 November and is believed to be linked to the disappearance earlier in 1998 of business associate. Her body was later found in the River Ribble; her cause of death was drowning and head injuries. However, researcher Steve Killelea said Glasgow had become much more peaceful over the past five years. Iain Murray, a police inspector who oversees the social enterprise arm of the initiative, including the cafes, said what they are doing is breaking the generational cycle that if young men and women turn around their lives, then their children are less likely to follow them down a path of violence. A man police once wanted to quiz about his death is not being sought by them anymore. Someone strangled 23-year-old Gail Whitehouse, a mother-of-two, and left her body in bushes in Wolverhampton's red-light district. No motive for her murder was established: nothing had been stolen and the fact that there was no sign of a break-in suggested that Sarah had let her killer into her home. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. An unknown man wearing blue overalls was seen leaving the house the previous Friday and has been a suspect since the early days of the investigation into the murder. 18-year-old Natalie McLean was last seen with an unknown man in the Piccadilly 21 club in Manchester city centre early on Saturday 15 April 1995. 16 people are killed. There are suspicions that her attacker tricked his way in by pretending to be a gasman or some other type of official. 73-year-old Cross was fatally beaten on 4 September 1991 in the basement of Anno Domini, the antiques shop she worked in on Pimlico Road. They formed partnerships with local teachers, doctors and social workers. Previous warnings unheeded about deterioration in mental state. . In April 1990, a local man was charged with Royal's murder. Robbery seemed an unlikely motive because when his taxi was found in nearby. The body of the victim, a 43-year-old businesswoman and mother of two, was found in her car in Gurnell Leisure Centre car park by two women who initially thought her corpse was just a woman sleeping. A man stood trial for her murder but was cleared in January 1996. 71-year-old Johnson was found dead in his caravan on 20 April 1990, having died of a heart attack during a robbery in which he was tied up. ", "Unsolved Murders: 10k reward but no clues to killing", "Vigil held in memory of mother and daughters who died in arson attack as they slept", "A woman who was wrongly jailed for the deaths of a mother and two daughters has died", "The unsolved murder of schoolteacher Joy Hewer", "Detective in 'unusual' trial on perjury in murder case", "Former police inspector Richard Munro jailed", "The notorious unsolved murder of Cambridge's 'gentle giant' Ian Grant", "Grisly catalogue of unsolved murders spanning 25 years", "The seven horrific Hull murders that have never been solved", "Did Leanne killer take a second girl's life? Edith McAlinden, her son John and his pal Jamie Gray were sentenced to life in prison following the murder of three men in a flat in Crosshill, Glasgow. He was shot through the kitchen window at 4:30, Leslie Watkinson was a 66-year-old retired. Marelle Sturrock, 35, was 29 weeks pregnant when she was . Three women each jailed for the arson attack or an offence related to it appealed against their convictions, resulting in two of them having theirs overturned and the other having her prison term for perverting the course of justice reduced. In 2013 the case was re-opened, with police revealing they had DNA from the scene. At the time, Glasgow was western Europe's murder capital. The investigation into 34-year-old Alan's death involved looking into the theory that he had got mixed up with drug trafficking and crossed paths with one or more dangerous people as a result. Something went wrong, please try again later. She had been stabbed 20 times in the face and the neck. Edward Bransfield, 25, was shot in his parked car in Arthur Street on Thursday, 29 December. 27-year-old Katherine O'Brien was murdered at her home at The Croft, Halton, Runcorn, on 3 May 1999. The murder, which a Birmingham man went on trial for but was not found guilty of, happened not long after the West Indian Carnival (an event that has taken place in Leeds annually since 1967) had officially come to an end and just hours before Sedley Sullivan and Rachel Soloman were murdered in the same street a street fairly close to where people had earlier been enjoying the carnival proper. An entry from Michelle's 1990 diary stating that her "dream solution would be for Alison to disappear as if she never existed" was used as evidence against her at the trial. A ten-strong gang attempted to kidnap Alan Rosser in March 1999, but the existence of a link between that incident and the fatal shooting of him at his car-repair workshop on 12 November has not been proved. He was between 5ft 6 and 5ft 8ins tall, well built and aged 3545. 36-year-old John Green suffered a frenzied stabbing in the office adjoining his shop and his fiance found his body there the next day. Elizabeth Chau, a 19-year-old student from Vietnam, disappeared from, On the morning of 26 April 1999, Dando left the home of her fianc, Dr. Alan Farthing, and returned to her house in Gowan Avenue, Fulham, West London. Amanda worked as a sex worker and was last seen in the Portman Road area of. Schoolteacher Mary McKinlay, 50, was beaten, raped and stabbed to death in her flat on 21 or 22 May. TWO twisted thugs tortured and slashed two terrified victims and then filmed them in a horror blade attack. 20-year-old prostitute Hayley Morgan was found dumped half-naked in an alleyway between Ash Grove and Beech Grove off Beverley Road in Hull on 29 May 1998. Security guard Derek Ure, 21, was shot on 26 March as an attempt was being made to rob a security van in Greenock town centre. Andrew Bedford went missing on 28 September 1990. B. Ernest Barrie; Sean Harvey, 26, died outside a kebab shop on 11 May from a ruptured artery caused by a single blow to the neck. In 2014, police officers searched the grounds of an abandoned pub in. Seven people were taken in for questioning over the attack but each of them was released without charge. They are burned into the memories of generations of Glaswegians: that shot of Paul Ferris standing outside the High Court declaring victory while a posse of angry cops looked on, helpless. Her body was found close to Lamberts Restaurant on the road between Shifnal and Wolverhampton on 2 February 1991. 94-year-old Wood was killed during a burglary at her home in Whitby Avenue, John Marshall, 34, a married father of three, lived near. Concerned for her welfare because she had not answered the door to a woman attempting to deliver shopping to her, a neighbour took the decision to enter Mrs Shelley's bungalow by breaking a lounge window. In 1993, Tobin was convicted of attacking and raping two 14 year old girls at knifepoint in England. Her handbag was missing and police believe she may have been sexually assaulted. At the time of his murder, Leslie Jackson was suffering from cancer and did not have long to live. Despite three individuals having been arrested in relation to the case, no one has been charged with the burglary or with the arson attack that killed her. The shooting followed a quarrel the 25-year-old had got into outside a newsagent's shop a little while earlier. Hairs she had in her hand when discovered dead in the kitchen not being tested as well as they could have been, together with a forensic expert's case notes being altered and his failure to treat two bloodspots on the murder weapon separately, meant that the conviction of a man found guilty of murdering her was later deemed unsafe. Duncan Clift, 27, a Kent Police officer who had travelled to Northumberland (the county he was originally from) to visit family, was standing in front of a car in a bid to prevent theft of the vehicle when its driver purposely ran him down. 63-year-old Leeming was beaten and stabbed to death in his garage on 9 October. 32-year-old Julie Jones was reported missing by her housemate on 27 June 1998 and found dead on 3 July under bushes on the site of the old Smithfield Market in Manchester city centre. 21-year-old Sharon Harper was set upon and strangled after leaving the Market Cross, the Grantham pub where she worked as a barmaid, to walk to the home of her babysitter in the early hours of Saturday, 2 July. Despite there being a solid fingerprint recovered from the scene, the police have no suspects and appeals are still made in an effort to solve Trenholm's murder. 32-year-old Carol Clark was last seen in Montpelier, Karen McGregor, 29, was battered and strangled on 18 April 1993 and her body was found hidden in the car park of the, 52-year-old James Alfred Moody, known as Jimmy and himself suspected of murder, was shot dead with a revolver in a pub on the fringes of. Jonathan Jones, the boyfriend of their daughter, Cheryl, was convicted of their murders, but the verdict was quickly overturned on appeal. 79-year-old Beatrice Greig was beaten to death at her home in Loughrigg Close, The Meadows, Nottingham, on 28 March 1992. Emily's mother, Katie, was able to escape the blaze in the house along with Emily's brother, Zach, who was three years old at the time. Her evidence was considered unreliable by the court. John Bennett, aged 26, was beaten and stabbed multiple times on Glasgow's Royston Road in an apparently "motiveless" killing. Seven years after Annie's death, in 2005, the Criminal Injuries Compensation Appeal Panel ruled that her death was 'attributable to a crime of violence' and the police reopened the investigation. 37-year-old Trevor Hamilton was killed in a street shooting in. She lived an itinerant lifestyle and carried all her belongings in a suitcase, which was never traced. Diane Jones, 21, died along with her two daughters, Shauna (aged two) and Sarah Jane (aged 13 months), after the front door of their house was torn away and petrol poured in the building and set alight while they were asleep there in the early hours of 11 October. Police believed the culprit was trying to get information from Carolanne to access her safe. The Glasgow gang phenomenon first made national headlines nearly 80 years ago with teams of youths from overcrowded slums in The Gorbals, Bridgeton and The Calton clashing regularly in the city centre. A jury found a man charged over Clift's death not guilty of his murder or manslaughter. Patrick died from the effects of the fire two months later. Eddie Gorman, 53, spent more than 20 years in prison before joining the VRU. 59-year-old grandmother Deighton was found unconscious on a verge near her home on 10 June 1997, having been raped and beaten. Her killer was possibly a man posing as a water board official. 40-year-old Patrick Logan heard sounds from downstairs indicating that burglars were in his house while he and his 35-year-old fiance were in bed upstairs on 30 July 1999. Shot on 22 July while driving his car along Stockport Road. The body of the 19-year-old Scottish student was found in wooded wasteland near the car park on Miller Street during the evening of Saturday 30 May. McGovern wasjailed in 1990, aged just 16, for the frenzied knife murder of 47-year-old Thomas Cushley. Whether you are a researcher, historian or you simply want to know more about Britain's history, take this fantastic opportunity to search The British Newspaper Archive - a vast treasure trove of historical newspapers from your own home. Stephen Primrose, 35, lapsed into a coma and died about six months later after his head was hit multiple times with a heavy blunt object at his home on Chester Road. Found at the crime scene, and potentially of significance to the case, was a distinctive semi-naked toy figure that police think was once attached to a keyring. Meade never arrived and 12 days later her body was found in the Grand Union Canal. Rangers player ratings vs Celtic as Todd Cantwell shows up but silverware hopes ended at Hampden. At 2:30, At Yeomans Army Stores (where Mrs Egner was working) on Mansfield Road, the 62-year-old was hit over the head repeatedly with a bottle or hammer by someone who then took the till drawer (which contained about 250) away after wrapping it in green curtain. Patrick had been charged with and then cleared of a non-fatal shooting in 1997, and it was considered a possibility that his murder was to avenge the person he was alleged to have shot. 34-year-old mother-of-three Whittaker disappeared from the home she shared with her husband in, The body of Ian Murray Erskine, 44, was found in the River Cam in Upware on 25 March 1990. A street cleaner found the murder weapon a Smith & Wesson gun that had once belonged to a Scottish police force sometime later, wrapped up in a towel in a flowerbed. Today, hes employed as a mentor at the second Street and Arrow cafe. But gradually Glasgows last real unique sub-culture started to die out. 23-year-old Preston disappeared after waving to his mother as she left their home on Heath Road. 26-year-old Andrew Trail was found with stab wounds on Saturday, 14 May in the toilets of a blues club on Hallcarr Street. The 44-year-old mother-of-three had her throat slit while sunbathing outside her family home. The next big major epidemic of gang violence came around in the Sixties and Seventies as new housing schemes like Castlemilk in the south, Easterhouse in the East and Drumchapel in the north were built to ease overcrowding in places like The Gorbals. In 2014 it was reported that the same man had been jailed for a sex attack on another woman and that DNA evidence had matched him to Natalie's flat. Two Liverpool men aged 20 and 27 were charged over his murder days later, but. Homeless 44-year-old John Kilcoyne had been drinking in a flat with two associates when the police were called to say he had been badly hurt there. A man was tried but found not guilty. She had been strangled and her killer had set her bedroom on fire in an apparent attempt to hide the crime. 21 Oct 2019. A. Doris Kellett was a 92-year-old who was hammered to death in her own home. (It was not possible to retest the hairs to establish whether they were his or not as they were destroyed long before his retrial.). Liam Collins was taking on his Stunt Runner act on Argyle Street when an on-looker decided to give the dangerous act a go himself, however, he clattered into the hurdles. With fewer gangs in Glasgow than ever before we can only hope that trend will continue as we look back at the history and impact that gangs have had in some of our biggest areas. He lived in. Known as the Moors murders,. Sisters Michelle and Lisa Taylor were convicted of murdering the 21-year-old and sentenced to life imprisonment in July 1992, but had their convictions quashed the following year, by which time they were aged 22 and 19, respectively. He died on 24 March two days after the incident, which happened in a car park. To contain it, you need to think in terms of transmission and risk, symptoms and causes. 26-year-old Jacqueline Gallagher was last seen in. He was found stabbed to death in his car in Beavers Open Space, Hounslow. [147], A connection with the murder of Michaela Hague in 2001 has been suggested, as have links with convicted killer Stephen Griffiths. But from there on in, he is up against it. Her body had been left beneath a bed base in a brook and she had suffered multiple stab wounds. He chased the subject from Covent Garden to Aldwych, where he was stabbed three times. A blunt instrument had been used to strike her head with considerable force, and she died in hospital ten days later, on 21 February. (Video: Karla Adam/The Washington Post), Essential reporting from around the world. Lazenby was disabled, after a motorcycle accident had caused the loss of her left foot. Being in a gang was suddenly no longer just about territorialism or the thrill of the violence. 34-year-old Junior Carter was shot on Thursday, 29 February outside, 48-year-old Millard vanished on 1 March 1996 and her car was found at Battery Point on the coast of. He was well known locally as an organised crime figure and reportedly received a death threat shortly before he was murdered. Her body was found in woodland in the city's Pollok Park and she had been strangled. A 47-year-old businesswoman stabbed to death in Carbery Avenue on Thursday, 25 March. He had also resigned from his job three days before his death. The body of 17-year-old Donna Keogh has never been found, but her disappearance is being investigated as a murder enquiry. A change in the style of policing is . After the body of pregnant teacher Sturrock, 35, was found at her home in Glasgow on Tuesday morning, a search was launched for her partner David Yates who was wanted in . The body of 26-year-old Jones was found beaten and stabbed in the neck in undergrowth in, Surinder Kaur Varyapraj's body was discovered in her house in. The attack occurred in broad daylight, in front of shoppers. The body of Robert Higgins, 35, was found at the disused Craig's Quarry, Kirkliston, on 1 May 1995. He had last been seen on 15 December 1989 at his workplace, the. The 42-year-old was a masseuse who ran a sauna in London, and reputedly had VIPs including a judge and a TV presenter among her clients. On 15 August 1999, a car being pursued by another at high speed came to a halt when it crashed into a third car and then a lamppost, after which a man from the car that had been doing the chasing walked over to the crashed vehicle and shot both 24-year-old Antony Cook (its sole passenger), who died at the scene, and the driver, who pulled through following hospital treatment. They put themselves beyond anyone's forgiveness, In Belfast Northern Ireland law and order minister Dr Brian Mawhinney . Labelled razor gangs, after their weapon of choice, they literally carved out a new name for Glasgow, that of 'scar city.'. The cause of death was asphyxia, and it is believed he died the day before police found his body. The body of Hannah Deterville, a 15-year-old schoolgirl, was found mutilated at Horsenden Woods, Greenford on 27 January 1998. Her foster father, Sion Jenkins, was convicted of her murder in 1998. Inside, he found the 82-year-old widow cowering in her kitchen. The drawer was found dumped and empty in a garden in. Arran Coghlan previously cleared of the murder of Chris Little was prosecuted but cleared after it emerged the prosecution had held undisclosed evidence concerning another possible suspect. Three men, including Glasgow gangster. Sea salt or chili salt? he asks a customer, with an affable grin. Darren Samuel, 19, was shot on 29 October 1991 at the Cottage Bakery in Moss Side. ^ Mansey, Kate (14 March 2010). Kiltwalk heroes stepped out to raise millions for 856 different Scottish charities at today's biggest ever Kiltwalk as the streets of Glasgow became a sea of tartan.
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