So another child murder cleared from the books and he gets another life sentence which should ensure that he dies in prison. Quite fair as far as I am concerned. my only gripe is that all of these sentences will be concurrent and not consecutive. This means that any further sentence (s) don't mean a thing.
I met this guy on two occasions in my local pub in Johnstone, Renfrewshire. He was self employed delivering printed posters and leaflets and really anything printed on a regular Scottish run. The way it worked out,he stayed in a local hotel on a Thursday night. He had been directed to my local as they had a band on.
He was pleasant enough with rather piercing blue eyes. He wore a wax jacket, brown corduroy jeans and work boots with a gamekeepers checked hat covering his baldness and sparse black hair. Enquiring about local ladies, I took him to be a driver, away from home and off the lead as it were. He wore a plain gold wedding ring and said that he had been born in Scotland. I remember thinking that he might have brought a change of clothes to go out in. Then, noting the wedding band supposed that it might make a lady, at home, suspicious of his motives. He had retained his accent and really you would not know that he was no longer living in Scotland.
In conversation, he said that it was mostly Scotland that he delivered in, with Northern Ireland and Newcastle now and again, depending on orders. He came up on a Tuesday, overnight, from London, I think he said, stayed up North, somewhere, on Wednesday night and worked his way down the country to Johnstone for another overnight stay and then home on Friday. He did not like it much, going over to Ireland as it entailed an extra day, but it was part of his run.
I never met the other murderer, Peter Tobin, who was born in Johnstone and moved away. Then we had Raymond Gilmour, who still denies murdering schoolgirl Pamela Hastie, in woods, which were across the road from the hotel in which Robert Black stayed in. There were a few girls molested in those woods, at the same sort of time. We have also had an as yet unsolved murder of another school girl, Tracy Waters although it was pretty much agreed that a relative carried this out. He died a little time afterwards and was mentally handicapped in that he was a slow learner and rather lacked social skills of any kind.
For a town of some 25/30,000 people we have had our unfair share of notoriety.
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