A man was tried for her murder in 1999, but the case against him was dismissed. The store was situated in a part of town where raids on shops by drug addicts had become rather common. He had gunshot wounds to the head and his body was dismembered. The police charged a neighbour of hers with her rape and murder, but a jury returned verdicts of "not proven" on both charges. A man was convicted of manslaughter, but this was quashed on appeal in 2004. 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. Another theory is that the intended target was the friend of Benji's who was with him in the takeaway that day. 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. Two men seen pushing him into the shop on 1 February (the day of the killing) remain untraced. Charges were brought against the victim's wife and stepdaughter, but these were eventually dropped. On the day itself, he was seen running from his house to fields opposite carrying a blue sports bag which has never been found. Her body was found close to Lamberts Restaurant on the road between Shifnal and Wolverhampton on 2 February 1991. 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. . Callum said that when he drank he became violent, but he didnt know how to stop the cycle. She had worked in the St Lukes Street red-light area of the city, which was near to where she lived. 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. 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. [147], A connection with the murder of Michaela Hague in 2001 has been suggested, as have links with convicted killer Stephen Griffiths. 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. Glasgow Live series first published in November 2016. Events surrounding his murder were reconstructed on, 48-year-old Fitzmaurice was stabbed to death with a stiletto knife at or near his home on 3 February 1990. How Glasgow Shed Its Reputation As 'The Murder Capital Of Western Europe' Over the last decade, Scotland's biggest city cut its homicide rate by two-thirds. Schoolteacher Mary McKinlay, 50, was beaten, raped and stabbed to death in her flat on 21 or 22 May. Dunblane massacre in 1996: Thomas Hamilton shoots dead 16 school children and their teacher before turning the gun on himself. He had also resigned from his job three days before his death. Back at the food truck, Jonathan is busy preparing meals for the lunchtime crowd, which included a former offender who used to work at the food truck and now is employed as a supervisor at a nearby shop. 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. 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. 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. Jonathan, 28, works at Street and Arrow, a cafe in a 31-foot Airstream trailer that offers second chances along with trendy street food. Her body was found in woodland in the city's Pollok Park and she had been strangled. The cause of her death was strangulation. 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. Four men were found guilty of murder and conspiracy to rob, but the convictions were overturned in 1998. 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. Callum, 27, remembers when he first met a pink-shirted navigator. Gangs of hooligans who had previously been looking for their next fight were now looking for their next profit. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. We have listened and researched the public health approaches in cities like Glasgow, where their own long-term approach over more than a decade has delivered large reductions in violence, the mayor said in a statement. 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[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. 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. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. Results for 'murder' | Between 1st Jan 1970 and 31st Dec 1979 Some of the punches he threw landed on. 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. Nobody else has been charged with the murder. Jagged scars on his neck and the back of his head. Andrew Pilch's wife reported finding him deceased at their Church Street cottage on 13 September and it was believed the death of the 34-year-old was due to natural causes until a pathologist found that strangulation was the cause of it.