Some of the punches he threw landed on police officers. No motive could be found. 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. 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. The numbers dropped but the Cumbie endured. 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. 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. 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. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. 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. She died in Duke Street Gaol in Glasgow, having . 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. She had been stabbed up to three days previously. As she reached her front door at about 11:30, Someone deliberately ran over the 53-year-old in a country road near his home village of. (Facebook) Police investigating the murder of pregnant Marelle Sturrock believe she was killed in a premedicated attack, a source has said. Three men were cleared of his murder. 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. It is believed that Sarah may have known her killer and her murder could have had a connection to her involvement in the supply of amphetamines. 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. There is a general sense its a good thing, he said, but little in the way of hard proof.. 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. Glasgow's gangsters: Paul Ferris, from Blackhill to the Old Bailey, Arthur Thompson, the so-called last 'Godfather', Glasgow's gangsters, Tam 'The Licensee' McGraw, Pop stars, politics and the Easterhouse teams - the history of Glasgow's street gangs, How the Gorbals Cumbie ran Fred West out of town - the history of Glasgow's street gangs, Glasgow's Peaky Blinders - the gang who ruled the tough streets of the east end in the 1900s. Andrew Bedford went missing on 28 September 1990. Once a successful restaurateur in. 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. Three men arrested in 2013 in connection with the murder two on suspicion of being his killers, the third on suspicion of perverting the course of justice all ended up being released without charge. In the months that followed, although the police investigation into his death revealed him to have been a popular and well-respected individual, TV and newspaper appeals by detectives eager for any information that would move the case forward were not very successful. She had suffered catastrophic injuries consistent with falling from height or being hit by a car, and her clothing was missing. The 29-year-old panel beater's mother found his body in their back garden during the afternoon of 10 March. 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. It is believed that Sedley Sullivan was the intended target of this possibly drugs-related shooting in Harehills Avenue and that 18-year-old Rachel Soloman was killed as well by accident. Michael Beale makes 'fine margins' Rangers verdict as he provides Kent and Morelos future update. Jonathan, an employee at "Street and Arrow" in Glasgow, Scotland, says the cafe has given him "a second family." The 23-year-old, who was found battered to death in Pollok Park, was the . Nasreen was a 29-year-old mum of four who was strangled at her home in Cobden Crescent. ^ Mansey, Kate (14 March 2010). However, each trial collapsed due to a hung jury. He was between 5ft 6 and 5ft 8ins tall, well built and aged 3545. 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. However, he was cleared in June 1991. 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. By 2016/17 the number had . 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. Areas were ranked according to the number of homicides and levels of violent and weapon. 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. The Ibrox boss was bitterly disappointed by the outcome at the national stadium as his side lost out once again against Celtic who now look on course for a domestic Treble. Edna Kilbride, 70, was found dead at her home in Parkway Vale, 26-year-old Maria Christina Requena went missing on New Year's Day 1991, and her remains were found on 6 January in five plastic bin bags in the lake at. Bulic's body was discovered by firefighters in the early hours of 26 February, and the cause of his death was found to have been a fractured skull. Robert had died from a stab wound to his chest. A man stood trial for her murder but was cleared in January 1996. Seven people were taken in for questioning over the attack but each of them was released without charge. Michael Sutherland died when he was stabbed through the arm and in the neck near where a New Year's Eve party was taking place. A man was charged but the case was later dropped. Murderers . The jury convicted him, but he was acquitted in 1998 because the jurors had been given inaccurate timings and because an inmate to whom he had supposedly confessed could no longer be considered a reliable witness. 26-year-old Trevor Monerville was stabbed by five men on Trumans Road, Stoke Newington, on 19 March 1994. 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. Her body was found in a burning pile of rubbish close to the A327 road south of Reading early on Saturday 16 November. Arran Coghlan was charged with the 31-year-old racketeer's murder but cleared of it; the next decade Coghlan went on to be charged with and cleared of two other murders and cocaine smuggling. 37-year-old Trevor Hamilton was killed in a street shooting in. They formed partnerships with local teachers, doctors and social workers. 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. (It was not possible to retest the hairs to establish whether they were his or not as they were destroyed long before his retrial.). Warren Wilson, a 32-year-old police informant, had four bullets fired into his head as he sat in his car on 17 August. 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Boy George, Pete Tong, Judge Jules and other leading lights of . 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. 29-year-old Michelle McKnight was discovered with two stab wounds on the drive of her home on 27 June 1993. Her husband, Brian, reported her missing when she failed to return home. Despite his history of assaulting police officers, Jonathan now counts Murray as a friend. Two men were cleared of the offence when a potential trial witness failed to attend court. It had been alleged that she had killed him because she believed he had harmed her sister's baby son. A fellow passenger dragged the 49-year-old Swedish tourist off a bus whilst attempting to steal her handbag on Saturday, 27 March. They now come up against Inverness in the final. A blunt instrument had been used to strike her head with considerable force, and she died in hospital ten days later, on 21 February. On 29 November her body was found rolled up in a carpet in a pile of waste 50 yards from her house. 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. Your search results for murder: 4500 newspaper articles contained information about murder filtered by: Newspaper title: Aberdeen Press And Journal Date from: 1st Jan 1970 - Date to: 31st Dec 1979 . Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. Glasgow detectives release picture of man after serious assault on Queen Street, Police Scotland have released an image of a man they believe could assist in their investigation of a serious assault which occurred on Queen Street near to Max's Bar, Glasgow punter decks it after halting stuntman's show and leaping over 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. 27-year-old Katherine O'Brien was murdered at her home at The Croft, Halton, Runcorn, on 3 May 1999. From this environment the next generation of gang members, now known as young teams, emerged - their ranks swollen by disenfranchised youths, left hopeless and adrift after years of cut backs, unemployment and drug abuse. In 1993, a second person was tried for Royal's murder. Someone throttled and stabbed 22-year-old Leona McGovern before leaving her body behind the Arts Centre on Washington Street, Glasgow in June 1995. Schoolgirl Kate Bushell was murdered as she walked a neighbour's dog a short distance from her home in Exwick, on the outskirts of Exeter. Jonathan, 28, works at Street and Arrow, a cafe in a 31-foot Airstream trailer that offers second chances along with trendy street food. She lived an itinerant lifestyle and carried all her belongings in a suitcase, which was never traced. 48-year-old Brian Adams was the victim of a fatal shooting just outside his, 33-year-old Stevens was hit on the back on the head with a blunt instrument twice and then dumped in the. A man was convicted of manslaughter, but this was quashed on appeal in 2004. Diane was a sex worker and two men were charged with her murder but there was not enough evidence for them to stand trial. Donna lived with cousins in, Janet Johnson was battered to death and her body was left next to a tramline in, Car dealer Robin Wood, 47, was shot dead by someone at his front door on Saturday 2 May 1998. Murder in Glasgow (8 P) T. Terrorist incidents in Glasgow (2 P) U. June 2007 UK terrorist incidents (10 P) Pages in category "Crime in Glasgow" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. A 47-year-old businesswoman stabbed to death in Carbery Avenue on Thursday, 25 March. 17-year-old Jodine Brown's body was found battered and decomposing under a duvet in her bedroom by her mother on 18 July. He was said to have been a drug dealer and to have had a kilogram of cannabis in his possession when he was murdered, but the police did not find it. 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. The body of 17-year-old Donna Keogh has never been found, but her disappearance is being investigated as a murder enquiry. 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The unit, initially part of Strathclyde police, was set up in 2005 to tackle the city's endemic knife fighting and gang crime. Forensic evidence suggested that her body had been stored somewhere cold prior to being dumped and set on fire. 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. 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. In 2006, police confirmed that Nikki Allan's murder was being reinvestigated by a "cold case" review team based at Northumbria Police's headquarters. The restaurant was in the city's district of, Although the 37-year-old disappeared in 1997, it was not until 2014 that the police changed the status of her case from that of missing person to presumed murder victim. 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. Prostitute Barbara Finn vanished from her usual area of work in. 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. By the end of that year, three men had been arrested on suspicion of her murder, but none of them was charged with anything. 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. Their excesses were eventually curtailed by legendary cop, Sir Percy Sillitoe, who met violence with violence, bringing in tough new recruits to smash the razor-gangs and their hold on the city. She had been stabbed 20 times in the face and the neck. David Foley was shot outside a pub on 12 July. The Tunnel on Mitchell Street, now a Revolution bar, was the city's first super club. His body was found the next day in a wartime. 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. Junior Collins was a native of Scotland but had moved to Salford where his partner and mother of his five year old son Calvin has spoken of the loss of "the nicest guy". Jonathan Jones, the boyfriend of their daughter, Cheryl, was convicted of their murders, but the verdict was quickly overturned on appeal. [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. Known as the Moors murders,. 13-year-old Lindsay Jo Rimer lived with her parents in Cambridge Street, Hebden Bridge. Today the ned has become a caricature, mocked widely in sitcoms like Still Game and Chewin' The Fat. 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. The cause of her death was strangulation. Mark Jarrett, a cocaine and cannabis dealer aged 29, was shot dead at his flat in Palace Road on Tuesday, 14 September. 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". 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. 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. Some of the punches he threw landed on. Although the body of 26-year-old Amanda Duncan has never been found, police are treating her disappearance as a murder enquiry. Another theory is that the intended target was the friend of Benji's who was with him in the takeaway that day. It was his 17th visit to emergency room in just over a year. They are intervening in hospitals, working with partners in schools and helping former offenders get back to work. The body of Janet Brown, a 51-year-old mother-of-three who had worked as a research nurse in Oxford, was found gagged and handcuffed at her home on 10 April. Going to the . Since then. 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. 79-year-old Edna Waller suffered fatal blunt-force trauma whilst being robbed in Bramwell Gardens. 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A third youth charged with murder and burglary was acquitted of both. Just days prior to his death, Drummond had withdrawn large amounts of cash from his accounts, although the money was later found in the house. 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. Kevin Nightingale, a nightclub bouncer aged 33, was shot at his doorstep four times after being driven home from his place of work on 17 February. 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. The drug dealers were found guilty of murder but their convictions were overturned on appeal in 1999. 365 Wishaw, Lanarkshire, Scotland 248 Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland 159 Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland 150 Airdrie, Lanarkshire, . He had also resigned from his job three days before his death. Published: Saturday 18 January 1992 Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal 10 Jul 2019. Her body was found dumped in a carrot field just off the Rainford bypass the following day; she had been strangled and her clothing was missing. 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. 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. 'Gangland' murders of John Hall and David McIntosh unsolved after 21 years. The head and hands had been removed and the victim was never identified. 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. 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. Celtic player ratings vs Rangers as Cameron Carter-Vickers and Jota shine in Scottish Cup win. A commotion was going on around there, and he and a friend were hit by two people. 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. He wasn't in Marbella, but on his old stamping ground in east London. It was during this time that the drug trade really started to get a grip of the city. 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. Her body was found on 27 November, but may have lain undiscovered for as long as a month. Investigators said that the killer almost certainly had local knowledge due to their knowledge of the waste yard used to dispose of the body next to her home.
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