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Andrew Bedford went missing on 28 September 1990. She died in Duke Street Gaol in Glasgow, having . A man was charged, but the case against him was dropped. This conviction was quashed in 2004 and a retrial was ordered. 54-year-old Michael Pritchard was deliberately run over when trying to stop his delivery van from being stolen on Wednesday, 12 November. Two men originally from Turkey were cleared of the killing but received long sentences in 1998 for smuggling drugs. 23-year-old Preston disappeared after waving to his mother as she left their home on Heath Road. Believed to have had a role in the April 1990 murder in Spain of Great Train Robber. 27-year-old Katherine O'Brien was murdered at her home at The Croft, Halton, Runcorn, on 3 May 1999. 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. Surinder Gill was an insurance salesman who drove a distinctive modified dark red Mercedes with 16 GLL on its number plate. 79-year-old Edna Waller suffered fatal blunt-force trauma whilst being robbed in Bramwell Gardens. He has been denied compensation as no evidence disproves his guilt. A survey by Glasgow Liveshowed that 97% of people believe there are fewer gangs on the streets and 71% believe the streets are safer as a result. Murder in Glasgow (8 P) M Mass murder in Scotland (1 C, 2 P) Scottish murderers (6 C, 7 P) P People murdered in Scotland (1 C, 38 P) U Unsolved murders in Scotland (9 P) Pages in category "Murder in Scotland" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. 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). Bushell, aged 14, set off from her home in Burrator Drive at 4:30, The 19-year-old gang member was chased through the streets of, Car dealer John Haselden, 23, was found dying from a gunshot wound in his Ford Escort on Monday, 1 December. Her evidence was considered unreliable by the court. 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. 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. The smouldering remains of 20-year-old Deborah Wood, who had been missing since leaving a Leeds pub ten days earlier, were found near a train station on 14 January. 21-year-old Brewin disappeared from her parents' home in Peatmoor. Michelle and Alison's husband had been having an affair (though both claimed it had ended by the time of the killing something the police did not accept), and the accusation was that Michelle, fuelled by jealousy, had stabbed Alison while Lisa stood guard. She had been stabbed 20 times in the face and the neck. The police revealed that there were no grounds to re-open the investigation, indicating that they still believed Corcoran was responsible, but the case is now officially unsolved. He has a history of drug abuse and assault. 63-year-old Leeming was beaten and stabbed to death in his garage on 9 October. Meade never arrived and 12 days later her body was found in the Grand Union Canal. He did not have any gangland connections and appeared to have been targeted at random. The truck is run, at an arms length, by the Scottish police. A jury found a man charged over Clift's death not guilty of his murder or manslaughter. A man was tried for her murder in 1999, but the case against him was dismissed. The Light Blues knew going into the game that they needed to win to retain any hope of landing silverware this season and deny their arch rivals the chance of a domestic Treble. Sarah Crump, 33, was found murdered at her flat in Southall, west London on 1 September 1991. She lived an itinerant lifestyle and carried all her belongings in a suitcase, which was never traced. It has been suggested that Bulic was murdered because he planned to expose widespread abuse at Lambeth Council's children's homes. Nine arrests were made but none of the arrested people was charged over the Valentine's Day killing. Reclusive Sandy Drummond, 33, was found dead on a farm track close to the home he shared with his brother, an isolated cottage near St Andrews, Fife, on 24 June 1991. The 23-year-old, who was found battered to death in Pollok Park, was the . Frank Harris, 26, was stabbed to death at a street party following an argument about a sound system. Her burnt body was found at her home in the early hours of 25 March 1994. An ambulance arrived soon afterwards, but Mr Kilcoyne was dead by then, and a stab wound to the neck was what had killed him. 24-year-old Sharon Tyler was knifed to death at her home on 12 November. 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. 43-year-old Alan Leppard was shot in the chest on 1 April (Easter Monday) after answering a knock on the door. Boy George, Pete Tong, Judge Jules and other leading lights of . He has a history of drug abuse and assault. 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. Two males were indicted for the murder of 55-year-old Austin O'Reilly but not convicted of it. The body of Kevin Coniam, a 36-year-old Kent-born lorry driver, was found on 5 October in his Volvo Estate car in woodland close to the northern outskirts of Mansfield. This list may not reflect recent changes. Margo was the seventh Glasgow sex worker to have died in as many years. 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. In 1932 Glasgow was sunk in the Great Depression, lawless, fast-talking and with streets ruled by razor gangs. 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. In 2014, police officers searched the grounds of an abandoned pub in. 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. 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. In April 1990, a local man was charged with Royal's murder. Knife crime again escalated giving Glasgow the unwanted title of murder capital. A man was accused at trial of arranging the shooting from prison after hearing that his wife and two other women had been attacked by Foley, but the judge found the prosecution's case against him too weak to allow the jury the option of finding him guilty. It also emerged that a great deal of damage was done to the property in the course of the burglary, and that when the woman whose house it was returned to it the next day, she vowed that whoever was responsible would pay for it. TWO twisted thugs tortured and slashed two terrified victims and then filmed them in a horror blade attack. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. A man he was with was also shot, but not killed. It had been alleged that she had killed him because she believed he had harmed her sister's baby son. There were the Barlinnie riots and the 'faces', the old school hard men, people like Arthur Thompson, the so-called last 'Godfather'. GLASGOW, Scotland Jonathan has scars from his former life. As the years went by the drug problem escalated and a heroin epidemic, along with a harsh Thatcher government, had started to bite and ravage areas like Possil and The Calton. An owner has been reunited with his dog who he describes as his "rock", after the pooch was stolen while he had his back turned in the Trongate area on a busy Glasgow street. There is a general sense its a good thing, he said, but little in the way of hard proof.. 16-year-old Guydance Dacres was shot dead in the Chimes nightclub on Lower Clapton Road. A reconstruction was featured on. Warren Wilson, a 32-year-old police informant, had four bullets fired into his head as he sat in his car on 17 August. Jagged scars on his neck and the back of his head. 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. Going to the . Because the flat had been ransacked, and because Mr Howe had tens of thousands of pounds hidden in a safe there (which the offender/s did not find), robbery is thought to have been the motive for the killing. Stuffed cookie favourite Chulo's launched in the Finnieston area with the pair now located in the former Guitar Workshop of 936 Argyle Street. 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. Carol Milne. The armed gang left with a small amount of cash, and the vehicles used in the robbery were later found burnt out about half a mile from the farmhouse. The attack was almost certainly witnessed by Karen's 19-month-old daughter. Gang member Martin Bennett was taken to hospital and died after falling victim to a shooting in Moss Side on 31 July. A subsequent inspection there revealed no signs of forced entry. 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. It was during this time that the drug trade really started to get a grip of the city. Police also issued pictures of his clothing, including a light-blue shirt with a distinctive motif on its pocket. Fraser said the VRU has been successful at changing the narrative about crime, but he was hesitant about more concrete results. The man who ordered the killing of the Great Train Robber Charlie Wilson was himself shot dead in an Amsterdam bar, a London inquest was told yesterday. Her body was found in a burning pile of rubbish close to the A327 road south of Reading early on Saturday 16 November. 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. 66-year-old Daniel McFadden was brutally beaten at his home in Mere Gardens, Halliwell, before the flat was set on fire in the early hours of 18 June 1998. Thought to have been strangled to death in mid-December 1995, his remains were found on 6 April 1996 in a wood near the village of Essendon. Despite this, two men in their 40s were arrested in 2014 on suspicion of Mr Ghafoor's murder; they were subsequently released on bail pending further inquiries. This was about protecting your patch and therefore protecting a profit". 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. On 20 January 1992, 14-year-old Tracey Meade said goodbye to her mother before going to stay the night at her aunt's flat nearby, apparently a frequent occurrence. John Nolan was left on the drive of a school on Kensington Park Road after being kicked and stamped to death during the annual, 25-year-old Christopher McGrory was discovered strangled to death in his van at Dougalston Golf Course on 23 September. Morelos is likely to be playing his football away from Ibrox next season. 15-year-old Gorrie was found half-naked and strangled on 2 August at a popular site for courting couples in the grounds of Merchistoun Hall in Horndean. 71-year-old Frederick Barnett was stabbed and had his throat cut at his home in Hopewell Road, east Hull, on 29 December 1995. Inside, he found the 82-year-old widow cowering in her kitchen. In 2013 the case was re-opened, with police revealing they had DNA from the scene. 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[1998] EWCA Crim 177 (20th January, 1998)", "Relatives enraged after man cleared of murder", "WALTHAMSTOW: Appeal launched 16 years after sex worker murder", "Renewed plea for help over Bank Holiday murders", "Sally Ann John murder: Postcard deemed a fake", "Are missing Coventry sex workers victims of the Midlands Ripper? An appeal was later made for a woman who had phoned to give information that concerned the incident to get back in touch. 20-year-old Dorrie McKie was gunned down in. Two men were committed to trial for the murder and acquitted of it in 2000. 13-year-old Lindsay Jo Rimer lived with her parents in Cambridge Street, Hebden Bridge. Widow Linda Chandler, 46, was stabbed on her doorstep on Fairbourne Avenue, Seven-year-old Emily Salvini was asleep in her home on Hemdean Road, Caversham, Reading, when petrol was poured through the letterbox and then lit early on Saturday 3 May. Bedfordshire Police charged a man with his murder after being told by his brother that he had admitted to being the culprit to him. The smoke-covered, devastated faces of the victims of the Ice Cream Wars' greatest tragedy as they sat in the back of an ambulance, receiving treatment for the blaze that eventually claimed the lives of six of their relatives - including one baby and four adults under the age of 25. Coghlan went on to be charged with and cleared of a third count of murder and cocaine smuggling. Infamous gangland figure Walter Norval spent seven years in jail between 1960 and 1967 and on his release said the first thing he noticed was how the streets had been transformed. Bulic Forsythe, 42, was last seen by his colleagues at Lambeth Social Services on 24 February 1993. 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. David Clarke, 23, was shot and gold rings were stolen from him in Bravington Road, Maida Vale, on Friday, 29 October. 'Gangland' murders of John Hall and David McIntosh unsolved after 21 years. He had gunshot wounds to the head and his body was dismembered. 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. However, at his trial the case collapsed as it was deemed that his confession had been gained by coercion. However, researcher Steve Killelea said Glasgow had become much more peaceful over the past five years. Shortly after launching the VRU, police ratcheted up stop-and-search and successfully campaigned for legislation that increased the maximum sentences for carrying a knife. There are a lot of factors at play, said Susan McVie, a professor of criminology at the University of Edinburgh. The aim of the game was to knock an unsuspecting neighbour's door and run like the wind - not to mention picking someone who a) wouldn't catch you and b) wouldn't tell your mum. 16 people are killed. Rangers player ratings vs Celtic as Todd Cantwell shows up but silverware hopes ended at Hampden. Stewart . And you can now read part two on the site as we enter Tongland with the Calton Tongs and hear the war cry that has echoed through the ages. Back then the reality was no laughing matter. Her body was found on 27 November, but may have lain undiscovered for as long as a month. "Being in a gang was suddenly no longer just about territorialism or the thrill of the violence. She died from head injuries. Patricia Grainger, 25, a vulnerable woman with learning difficulties, was found murdered close to her home in Buchanan Road, Parson Cross, on 10 August 1997.

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