The World's End Murders: The Final Verdict

The World's End Murders: The Final Verdict

by David Johnston (Author), TomWood (Author)

Synopsis

The horrific killing of two young Edinburgh women in October 1977 sparked a nationwide manhunt that turned into one of Britain's longest and most famous murder investigations. In The World's End Murders, Tom Wood and David Johnston tell the story of two innocent young women, Helen Scott and Christine Eadie, and of the extraordinary commitment of the police enquiry over three decades that eventually led to the discovery of links to their deaths with Angus Sinclair, one of Scotland's most notorious murderers and sex offenders But this is not a gruesome tale of murder. It is a story of heroes - of the families of Helen and Christine who, with quiet dignity, have carried an unimaginable burden down the years, and of the police officers, the support staff and the scientists who persisted in their investigations and never gave up. This edition has been fully updated to cover the sensational retrial of Angus Sinclair after he was acquitted in 2010. Angus Sinclair is the first person in Scottish legal history ever to have been tried for the same crime twice.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Published: 27 Nov 2014

ISBN 10: 1780272103
ISBN 13: 9781780272108

Author Bio
Tom Wood was Deputy Chief Constable and Director of Operations of Lothian and Borders Police and Officer-in-Overall Command of the linked murder investigation into the deaths of a number of young women, including Helen Scott and Christine Eadie. He has a distinguished record of study of police operations and management and was awarded The Queen's Police Medal in 1995. David Johnston has been a journalist in Scotland for over 20 years, spending most of that time as Head of News with Radio Forth.