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 . Today the ned has become a caricature, mocked widely in sitcoms like Still Game and Chewin' The Fat. 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. Stewart . Talbot was murdered on 9 September 1998 and discovered in a pond having been strangled. 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. Her burnt body was found at her home in the early hours of 25 March 1994. Scotland's Glasgow was once known for its murders. Now its a model to 34-year-old Berrington was found dead and naked by her ex-husband in her new flat in Abringer Close, Wallington, on Good Friday 1994 (1 April). Lynne Trenholm was found dead in Pinky's massage parlour in Boughton, Chester on 9 June 1991. 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. List of unsolved murders in the United Kingdom (1990s) She had drowned but was found to have been stabbed twice and police think there may have been a sexual motive as she was only partially dressed and some of her clothes were found elsewhere. 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. This table shows every known victim of murder or manslaughter aged 10-19 in the UK since 1 Jan 2008. 38-year-old Joseph McEwan was found dead or dying with bullet wounds in his head at his Aldridge Road address. His death was not thought to be linked to the January 1993 murder of his associate Donald Urquhart, for which a hired killer was jailed for life. A third man who was also charged but whom the Crown Prosecution Service offered no evidence against later died, and his mother said that he never recovered from the trauma of his arrest and charge. With no evidence that either of them had done anything illegal or was prone to making enemies, the reasons for the killings remain as much a mystery as the identities of the persons behind them. They formed partnerships with local teachers, doctors and social workers. 26-year-old Andrew Trail was found with stab wounds on Saturday, 14 May in the toilets of a blues club on Hallcarr Street. Man admits murder of Glasgow woman Tracey Wylde in 1997 Glasgow Crime Stories: Horrific 1998 murder of a sex worker Margo In stepped an English police constable, who . A pathologist found she had ultimately died from a heroin overdose but had been punched and possibly kicked beforehand, and Humberside Police list the case as an unsolved murder. In April 1990, a local man was charged with Royal's murder. Andrew Bedford went missing on 28 September 1990. 42-year-old Charlie Jones died on 10 February from a blood clot triggered by a nighttime street attack he had suffered in his home town just over two weeks earlier. Most youngsters today view being associated with their local young team as 'a complete cringe.'. At that time political and religious tensions were at their highest and membership to some of the biggest gangs was well into the hundreds. A decade ago, she said, hospital staff were inundated with patients pouring in with broken jaws, broken cheekbones, slashes across the face.. Marelle Sturrock, 35, was 29 weeks pregnant when she was . 79-year-old Beatrice Greig was beaten to death at her home in Loughrigg Close, The Meadows, Nottingham, on 28 March 1992. He was shot through the kitchen window at 4:30, Leslie Watkinson was a 66-year-old retired. She also had a bag over her head. In 2006, police confirmed that Nikki Allan's murder was being reinvestigated by a "cold case" review team based at Northumbria Police's headquarters. On the evening of Saturday, 24 August 1996, 14-year-old Caroline left the home she shared with her mother in. Her body was later found in the River Ribble; her cause of death was drowning and head injuries. 23-year-old Preston disappeared after waving to his mother as she left their home on Heath Road. She had drifted into heavy drug use and at the time of her disappearance had been getting involved with a well-known south London drug dealer in his thirties. 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. Arthur Thompson was the 31-year-old son of the, The disappearance of 21-year-old Andrew Elphick began to be treated as murder in 1995. Jonathan Grant is set to retire as ranger on remote Mingulay, Pabbay and Berneray near Barra after moving north to escape city life, now the National Trust for Scotland is searching for a replacement. 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. 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. 19-year-old Katrina Taylor was stabbed six times and her body was found by a dog walker on the morning of 5 July in the graveyard of St Nicholas Church. Glasgow Live series first published in November 2016. Colleagues Michael McCormack, 59, and John Ogden, 34, were shot in Cavendish Road on 21 October whilst walking back to work after having had lunch in a public house. List of unsolved murders in the United Kingdom (1980s) 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. Hunt for remote island caretaker as Glasgow dad retires from one of most idyllic jobs in Scotland. Because there was a suicide note next to the bath in which Brenda Long's body was found and an empty pill packet was in the bath as well, foul play was not suspected to begin with, but an examination of the body by a pathologist revealed that someone had caused her to fall unconscious by holding an ether-soaked pad over her nose before drowning her. Charges were brought against the victim's wife and stepdaughter, but these were eventually dropped. Gideon Tsagane, a 30-year-old stagehand, was shot three times in the back and once in the head at a garage in Islip Street, Kentish Town, on Friday, 29 January. His back is a canvass of scars. A. List of unsolved murders in the United Kingdom (1990s) 1990s See also List of people who disappeared mysteriously Chris Clark, British author who writes about unsolved murders David Smith, convicted killer suspected of being responsible for unsolved murders References ^ "William Howe". Today, hes employed as a mentor at the second Street and Arrow cafe. In reality they were concrete wastelands, devoid of basic amenities and the perfect place for the old problems to again come bubbling back to the surface. A tall and heavily built man shot the 44-year-old antique dealer outside his home with a .45 calibre automatic pistol on Sunday, 24 March before running away and leaving in a van that had been parked in nearby Oaktree Avenue. 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. After a man was charged, the prosecution contended at his 1996 trial that he had committed the murder because he had been in a relationship with and remained on good terms with a female next-door neighbour of Billy's and resented having been displaced by him as the object of her affection. 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This list may not reflect recent changes. 1993 Karen McGregor, 26, was not found for days after her. 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. 37-year-old Bowkett, who was married and had a two-year-old daughter, disappeared without explanation on 12 July 1992 from his home on Welfare Road, Woodlands, Yvonne Fitt was found dead in woodland near, On 23 July 1992, 28-year-old Hanby was found stabbed to death at a home in, Nine-year-old Christopher Stanley was last seen on 29 July 1992 talking with a friend and a neighbour on St Aubyn's Avenue, Hounslow. On his release in 2004, he returned to Scotland. Father-of-three Brendan Penn, 22, was stabbed in the heart after running into a group of people already involved in a street affray. The danger facing street prostitutes became part of national debate when Diane McInally was murdered in Glasgow in 1991. Three men, including Glasgow gangster. Two men were charged with his murder, but one of them had the charge dropped when he agreed to . Sea salt or chili salt? he asks a customer, with an affable grin. The police had always denied the existence of such a . Her body was found close to Lamberts Restaurant on the road between Shifnal and Wolverhampton on 2 February 1991. On 20 October 1990, a newspaper boy found the body of 51-year-old financial adviser Judith Gold, also known as Judith Silver, yards from her own home after she left dressed for a business meeting. 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. The Glasgow pub that's adamant they hold the real Stone of Destiny Her Rolex watch and some jewellery were taken but the safe was still locked. Julie had been a sex worker and detectives believed someone could have murdered her elsewhere before dumping her body. The 29-year-old panel beater's mother found his body in their back garden during the afternoon of 10 March. Joy Hewer, 52, was stabbed and sexually assaulted at her own home on 17 October 1995. The 45 and 33-year-old were gunned down and their bodies dumped on waste ground near a go-karting arena in Lanarkshire in 2001 and their killers have yet to face justice. [56], At the 1997 trial, the other two accused, drug dealers from London (one of whom was the woman's ex-boyfriend), claimed that when the four of them and Katrina were in a house together to try to reach an agreement, the woman and her brother, with Katrina in tow, had left the house and said upon coming back that Katrina was dead, while the woman and her brother claimed it was the drug dealers who had done that. Forensic evidence suggested that her body had been stored somewhere cold prior to being dumped and set on fire. Meade never arrived and 12 days later her body was found in the Grand Union Canal. Patrick died from the effects of the fire two months later. Warren Wilson, a 32-year-old police informant, had four bullets fired into his head as he sat in his car on 17 August. Foley had survived being shot at ten days before his murder. Four people were arrested at the time but not charged. As with the previous defendant, someone close to him having a connection to the man Royal had fatally stabbed (in this case his girlfriend, who was the sister of that man) was viewed as a motive, and he spent nearly 14 years in prison for the murder before his conviction was overturned in 2007.[13]. During the retrial, one of them admitted to a charge of false imprisonment but was freed anyway because of time he had already spent in jail.[305]. 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. However, her purse, bag, keys and 2,000 were found to be missing. Someone strangled 23-year-old Gail Whitehouse, a mother-of-two, and left her body in bushes in Wolverhampton's red-light district. 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. His best friend then went into hiding, but said after being charged with the murder a charge he would be acquitted of that it was fear of the killer that prompted him to. The world is also a different, far smaller place and the rise of the internet and social media has changed attitudes. Father-of-two Ethsham Ul-Haq Ghafoor, aged 26 and known as Shami, was shot twice on 22 November while sitting in the driver's seat of his taxi. 21-year-old Brewin disappeared from her parents' home in Peatmoor. She had been bludgeoned to death by an intruder with a crowbar or jemmy, but no stealing or ransacking had taken place there, and nor had she been sexually assaulted. 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 police charged a neighbour of hers with her rape and murder, but a jury returned verdicts of "not proven" on both charges. In 2017, Diane's son called for the investigation into his mother's murder to be reopened, claiming he had new evidence. MasterChef Australia judge Jock Zonfrillo dies aged 46 Actor Michael Boothe, 49, was set upon outside a toilet block in Elthorne Park on Sunday, 29 April. DECEMBER 30, 1969, is without doubt one of the darkest days in the history of policing in Glasgow. But increasingly, they emphasized the interruption and prevention of violent behavior. The Tunnel on Mitchell Street, now a Revolution bar, was the city's first super club. Died in Colchester General Hospital from the effects of a fire at their, The fire that killed 27-year-old Jean Trigg and her five-year-old son was started in the early hours of 27 July in the hallway of the house they were in. Vera Holland, a 47-year-old married mother of three, went missing on Thursday 14 November on her way to a local Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Shinfield Rise, south Reading. 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. Weapons seized from the homes of gang members in The Calton during a police raid in 2008, A gang of teenagers carrying machetes and swords to a gang fight captured on CCTV in 2006. Researchers urge caution in assessing the impact of Scotlands program. Her body was found on 27 November, but may have lain undiscovered for as long as a month. Two males were indicted for the murder of 55-year-old Austin O'Reilly but not convicted of it. Edge of the Grave is a rich mix of fact and fiction, drawing on author Robbie Morrison's family history and a wealth of other sources in its recreation of cloak and dagger 1930s Glasgow.