Some of the punches he threw landed on police officers. 54-year-old Michael Pritchard was deliberately run over when trying to stop his delivery van from being stolen on Wednesday, 12 November. Discover the lawless streets of 1930s Glasgow with thriller writer Two men were committed to trial for the murder and acquitted of it in 2000. 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. Police arrested and charged her husband after finding proof that he had been unfaithful to her, but the verdict at his trial was "Not guilty". McGovern wasjailed in 1990, aged just 16, for the frenzied knife murder of 47-year-old Thomas Cushley. Soft-spoken but armed with stories from his own chaotic past, Gorman points people in the direction of help, whether thats counseling, an alcohol recovery program or housing. Her burnt body was found at her home in the early hours of 25 March 1994. Sarah Crump, 33, was found murdered at her flat in Southall, west London on 1 September 1991. Dog snatched from busy Glasgow street reunited with owner after 10-day search. Celtic and Rangers fans flood Hampden as Hoops edge into the Scottish Cup final, Fans of the Old Firm clubs flocked to Hampden as Ramgers and Celtic both looked to seal a place in the Scottish Cup final where they will take on Inverness after they beat Falkirk, Spot yourself in Glasgow Kiltwalk pictures as a record breaking 14,000 take part. 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. Don Herbert, a 64-year-old ex-miner, was fatally battered with an oxygen cylinder (used by him to help relieve symptoms of. However, researcher Steve Killelea said Glasgow had become much more peaceful over the past five years. In 1993, Tobin was convicted of attacking and raping two 14 year old girls at knifepoint in England. He has a history of drug abuse and assault. Michael's video recorder was stolen. Foley had survived being shot at ten days before his murder. 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. Roy Francis Adkins, a 42-year-old Londoner, was killed in the Nightwatch bar of the American Hotel in Amsterdam on September 28, last year. 32-year-old Danny Ferguson's killer shot him in the head at his bedsit on the night of 2021 February. 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. It seemed likely that the gunman had mistaken them for other people. A Appin Murder There are suspicions that her attacker tricked his way in by pretending to be a gasman or some other type of official. Anthony Johnson (himself the victim of a gangland killing several months later) was suspected of being behind the double murder but not picked out at an identification parade. 40-year-old Gapper disappeared after leaving his home on Groves Hall Road. 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. Tommy Roche, 42, was shot on 21 June 1993 by a man on a motorcycle. Nothing was stolen from the house and there was no sign of forced entry, leading investigators to consider it likely that the perpetrator was not a stranger to her. Glenn Ford, 35, was last seen alive on 22 November in his home city of, The 35-year-old was shot as he was driving his car in the, 36-year-old McMillan disappeared on 25 November 1993 from the home she shared with her four-year-old daughter in, On 23 December 1993, Paul Logan's workplace, a takeaway in. Both were treated for severe burns at, Seven-year-old McCafferty was sleeping in his aunt's house in Huddersfield when an individual (or individuals) poured. This conviction was quashed in 2004 and a retrial was ordered. On the thirtieth anniversary of Wendy's death, police announced that items from the crime scene would be re-examined for previously undetected DNA traces. Police also issued pictures of his clothing, including a light-blue shirt with a distinctive motif on its pocket. 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. A reconstruction was featured on. Sarah Bowdler, a 68-year-old charity worker and widow, was found strangled in her bedroom at her home on Somers Road, Pleck, Walsall, on 17 September 1991. [199] However, the prime suspect was prostitute killer Alun Kyte, who had killed two prostitutes in December 1993 and March 1994 and was suspected by police of being responsible for many other prostitute murders across Britain. Three men were cleared of his murder. The body of the 63-year-old retired vet was found tied up in his flat on 9 January. At that time political and religious tensions were at their highest and membership to some of the biggest gangs was well into the hundreds. Although Sally's body has never been found, her disappearance began to be treated as a murder investigation in 2014. 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. 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 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. This article was published more than4 years ago. 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". We take a look at Glasgow's most infamous street gangs, from their heyday to their final hours and how the city left them behind, Get the latest crime news direct to your inbox with the Glasgow Crime and Courts newsletter. 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. In March 2009 police exhumed the body and gave a revised description of the victim. The 21-year-old's sister had, at the time of his death in 1987, been the partner of the man killed by Royal, and this was viewed as a motive. 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. Lynne Trenholm was found dead in Pinky's massage parlour in Boughton, Chester on 9 June 1991. The attempt ended in failure. There were times when you couldnt turn a corner in certain parts of the city for fear of stumbling upon a gang who might be hostile to the area you just happened to be brought up in. Two men seen pushing him into the shop on 1 February (the day of the killing) remain untraced. There were the Barlinnie riots and the 'faces', the old school hard men, people like Arthur Thompson, the so-called last 'Godfather'. Her case is treated as an unsolved murder by, Though an arrest took place in 2007 over Patricia Parsons' murder, the case has since gone cold once more. Glasgow's charity dating agency helping adults with learning difficulties find love. Boy George, Pete Tong, Judge Jules and other leading lights of . 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. Results for 'murder' | Between 1st Jan 1970 and 31st Dec 1979 Nasty Glasgow carer swore at elderly resident who didn't want a biscuit. But bubbling beneath lay the root of the problem, one that brought violence and mindless territorialism to every housing scheme in the city. Police believed someone local was responsible because the body had been dumped in a secluded location which only local people were likely to know about. Other possible explanations for the decline include anti-knife campaigns in Scottish schools and a trend of young people spending more time at home and less lingering on the streets. Glasgow's Young Teams: A Timeline of Progress, as we enter Tongland with the Calton Tongs, Glasgow police probed over claims around the killing of Marelle Sturrock by partner David Yates. 36-year-old David Ungi got out of his car and ran a short distance before collapsing and dying after he was shot in it whilst driving along North Hill Street in, The body of 17-year-old Sabrina Brett was found in the. She had suffered catastrophic injuries consistent with falling from height or being hit by a car, and her clothing was missing. 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]. 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. In 1993, a second person was tried for Royal's murder. 21-year-old Karen Hales was stabbed and her body was set on fire during a vicious attack in her own home on Sunday 21 November. There is a general sense its a good thing, he said, but little in the way of hard proof.. The 23-year-old, who was found battered to death in Pollok Park, was the . 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. Fraser said the VRU has been successful at changing the narrative about crime, but he was hesitant about more concrete results. Marelle Sturrock and David Yates. The Tunnel on Mitchell Street, now a Revolution bar, was the city's first super club. Four men charged over the murder of Carl Stapleton, a 17-year-old fatally attacked with a machete in, Someone strangled 32-year-old Glenda Potter and left her body near the United Reformed Church in Crow Lane, Rochester in May 1991. 26-year-old Andrew Trail was found with stab wounds on Saturday, 14 May in the toilets of a blues club on Hallcarr Street. Seven people were taken in for questioning over the attack but each of them was released without charge. Nine arrests were made but none of the arrested people was charged over the Valentine's Day killing. Police, who made four arrests but have not brought any charges over the death of the 61-year-old, thought he had been lured to the footpath by somebody he knew. He had last been seen on 15 December 1989 at his workplace, the. 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. Knife crime again escalated giving Glasgow the unwanted title of murder capital. Shortly after 4pm two officers were shot dead by a man seen acting suspiciously outside a flat in Govanhill on the south side of the city. List of British gangsters - Wikipedia At the time of his murder, Leslie Jackson was suffering from cancer and did not have long to live. 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. Frank Kinnis (83) Barmuckity, Elgin. 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Glasgow City Council decision to increase allotment rent by 400% 'will force people out'. A man with a gun went into the Flying Pizza restaurant on Glossop Road, chased 26-year-old employee Andrew Bentley out of there and shot him dead in the car park behind the building in the early hours of 12 April. (Sussex Police later apologised to the two women and acknowledged their total innocence.) He had also resigned from his job three days before his death. Search the archive | British Newspaper Archive Another suspect has since been identified, but no charges for the murder have been brought against him. After getting help with his drinking, he was offered a 12-month job at the Street and Arrow food truck and 18 months of mentorship. He lived in. Once a successful restaurateur in. Shot on 22 July while driving his car along Stockport Road. Results for 'murder' | Between 1st Jan 1950 and 31st Dec 1999 18-year-old Jack Hughes was stabbed in the leg in the early hours of 5 June 1999 in Adrian's Way, 44-year-old black minicab driver Barrington Page disappeared on 8 June 1999 and was found dead in the. The drawer was found dumped and empty in a garden in. Harold Smith, 72, his wife, Mary, also 72, and their son, Harold Jnr, 47, were found murdered in a bedroom of their home in Overbury Close, On 23 December 14-year-old Johanna left her home in Merton Road, Watton, at around 7:30, Steven Clark, who was 23 and had disabilities due to injuries sustained in a road accident during childhood, was for many years thought to have last been seen in, 14-year-old Benji Stanley was shot dead whilst in a takeaway with a friend. Seven-year-old Nikki Allan was battered and stabbed to death in the then-derelict Exchange Building on 6 October. Her body was found in a burning pile of rubbish close to the A327 road south of Reading early on Saturday 16 November. Two people were acquitted of the offence. Glasgow Crime Stories: Horrific 1998 murder of a sex worker Margo In 1932 Glasgow was sunk in the Great Depression, lawless, fast-talking and with streets ruled by razor gangs. The victim was 23 and died on 7 July 1994 after being shot in the chest twice whilst in the kitchen of the kebab shop he was employed by. A man was tried for her murder in 1999, but the case against him was dismissed. Murderers . 56-year-old Dunn was found dead with serious head injuries in a lay-by. Gang member Martin Bennett was taken to hospital and died after falling victim to a shooting in Moss Side on 31 July. She was a magistrate at Epsom Magistrates' Court and had said that she had moved to Wallington to escape a woman she feared would kill her. Glasgow Live series first published in November 2016. The yard where she was found had previously been searched numerous times, indicating that the killer had subsequently placed it there afterwards. 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. Janine Downes was a 22-year-old mother of three. He has a history of drug abuse and assault. Her Rolex watch and some jewellery were taken but the safe was still locked. 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. New hope for justice in Glasgow's infamous prostitute murders Ian Grant, a 24-year-old who had worked as a nightclub doorman in, 21-year-old Ahmed Abdullah was head-butted and fell down the stairs in a nightclub on 3 December 1995. Their bodies were left near a. 13-year-old Lindsay Jo Rimer lived with her parents in Cambridge Street, Hebden Bridge. 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. John Bennett, aged 26, was beaten and stabbed multiple times on Glasgow's Royston Road in an apparently "motiveless" killing. They are intervening in hospitals, working with partners in schools and helping former offenders get back to work. BBC NEWS | UK | Full list of teen killings Kathleen Hemphall, 40, a part-time midwife, was stabbed in her home during a burglary on 11 October. Her post-mortem was carried out soon afterwards at 1.30. Police fear murder of pregnant teacher Marelle Sturrock 'was The execution suite at Barlinnie was finally demolished in the mid 1990s, but Mr Fox said he had discovered some unusual facts about its use. This page is not available in other languages. Whether the gunman meant to shoot him or whether he did so by mistake when his real intention was to rob the pub with his accomplice (nothing was taken from there by either of them) is unknown. An appeal was later made for a woman who had phoned to give information that concerned the incident to get back in touch. Shackleton, 34, was found beaten to death in Telegraph Hill Park on 3 February 1991. A teenage boy on trial for Harvey's murder admitted throwing a punch at him but said it could not have been the fatal injury because his punch was delivered not to Harvey's neck but to his eye. The murder followed that of her partner, Alan Leppard, in April of the same year, and his is also still unsolved. 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 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. Dunblane massacre in 1996: Thomas Hamilton shoots dead 16 school children and their teacher before turning the gun on himself. Her killer was possibly a man posing as a water board official. 57-year-old Michael Towler was found fatally stabbed in the living room of his home on Holly Street, Horton Bank Top, Bradford, on the morning of 6 August 1992. Nahome, 48, was shot at his home several times in the back; upon collapsing, he was shot again in the head. Intruders armed with weapons attacked 29-year-old Kevin Childerley and his wife as they lay in bed, leading to his death and to her losing the sight in her right eye. 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 . Police were unable to establish a motive for his murder. The murder took place on 27 November and is believed to be linked to the disappearance earlier in 1998 of business associate. Robert had died from a stab wound to his chest. 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 men were charged with the murder of Perry Wenham, but the judge at their trial ruled in their favour, describing the case against them as "deplorably weak". showed that 97% of people believe there are fewer gangs on the streets and 71% believe the streets are safer as a result. Her pension money was missing from the house, along with a ring and an amber paperweight. Bank clerk Alison Shaughnessy was knifed over 50 times on the stairway to her flat on 3 June. Natalie's mother found her body at her Wythenshawe flat on 20 April; she had been stabbed. The 32-year-old former athletics champion was stabbed with a samurai sword in early February 1994. Margo was the seventh Glasgow sex worker to have died in as many years. Christine Goodall, an oral surgeon in Glasgow, works in partnership with the Scottish police. 24-year-old Sharon Tyler was knifed to death at her home on 12 November. 27-year-old Katherine O'Brien was murdered at her home at The Croft, Halton, Runcorn, on 3 May 1999. In 2013 the case was re-opened, with police revealing they had DNA from the scene. However, her brother did admit to having put the murder weapon down a drain in Peacehaven. Glasgow's iconic lost tower that could be rebuilt ahead of landmark anniversary. Housewife Julia Webb, 52, was battered with a blunt instrument while walking her dog near her home in Sandiway on 22 July 1998. 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. Viv Graham, 34, was fatally shot after leaving a pub on Wallsend High Street on 31 December 1993. The decision to increase rent prices for Glasgow allotments has been slammed by plot-holders who say it could force vulnerable renters to give up their beloved hobby. 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. Mark Jarrett, a cocaine and cannabis dealer aged 29, was shot dead at his flat in Palace Road on Tuesday, 14 September. 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. 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. It was a hard-fought victory for the Hoops to go six-games unbeaten against their Glasgow rivals and progress to the final on June 3. Glasgow gangland: How 1970s saw gangs turn from street battles to During a police interview, one of them admitted to seeing 31-year-old Mr Wenham get punched to the ground that night, but denied hurting him himself in any way. 72-year-old Alfred Sandford died from a cardiac arrest during a violent robbery at his home, Grove House Farm, Elton Head Road, Sutton Heath, on 24 July 1998. (Like others interviewed for this article, he spoke to The Washington Post on the condition that only his first name would be used, so that future employers wont immediately associate him with his past.). 71-year-old Frederick Barnett was stabbed and had his throat cut at his home in Hopewell Road, east Hull, on 29 December 1995. 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 the day itself, he was seen running from his house to fields opposite carrying a blue sports bag which has never been found. Neighbours had heard noises coming from his home the previous evening and a man had been seen acting suspiciously nearby. . Today the ned has become a caricature, mocked widely in sitcoms like Still Game and Chewin' The Fat. A 15-year-old boy was convicted of aiding and abetting the burglary (which he had already pleaded guilty to) but not of Kathleen's murder (which he had not been charged with), while a second youth was convicted of her murder but later had his conviction overturned. Michael Beale makes 'fine margins' Rangers verdict as he provides Kent and Morelos future update. Her body was found on 27 November, but may have lain undiscovered for as long as a month. 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. 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. A jury found a man charged over Clift's death not guilty of his murder or manslaughter. THE murder of 27-year-old heroin addict Margo Lafferty in the winter of 1998 was shocking in more ways than one. Bedfordshire Police charged a man with his murder after being told by his brother that he had admitted to being the culprit to him. But today his scars are partly covered by a bright pink shirt and black apron. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. The 44-year-old mother-of-three had her throat slit while sunbathing outside her family home. Desmond Noonan was tried for Tony's murder twice (along with alleged accomplices, including brother Damien at the first trial), and the prosecution claimed that Tony had been murdered because someone had threatened to complain to him about Desmond taking half of his share of the money from an armed robbery. A subsequent inspection there revealed no signs of forced entry. [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. 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. 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. 365 Wishaw, Lanarkshire, Scotland 248 Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland 159 Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland 150 Airdrie, Lanarkshire, . As yet no-one had been convicted, prompting fears that the women were being targeted by a serial killer. 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. 43-year-old Denise Motley was battered to death with a parking post on Monday, 9 November on the stairs leading to the basement of the furniture store she ran with her husband. 21-year-old Brewin disappeared from her parents' home in Peatmoor. According to the statistics, there were 127 homicide victims in Scotland in 2002, 11 more than in 2001 and . 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. 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. The body of Robert Higgins, 35, was found at the disused Craig's Quarry, Kirkliston, on 1 May 1995. 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). Corcoran was released on appeal in 2003 after serving around three years. Stan Nicholls, 37, was shot in the temple on 26 September when two men, one of them armed, burst into a public house as he was leaving the building shortly before midnight. 21 Oct 2019. A 47-year-old businesswoman stabbed to death in Carbery Avenue on Thursday, 25 March. 76-year-old Arthur Brumhill's body was found in the basement of the pet and garden centre on Wellingborough Road, where he worked part time, by a fellow employee. She had been strangled with an electrical cord. Murder charges against Colin McKay and gangster.
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