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Today we spotlight another man on the right side of the law dedicated to clearing up Glasgow’s streets. Listen to the latest episode ofThe career of Glasgow police chief Robert Colquhoun was remarkable even by the city's high standards.
For the first 18 months, he pounded the beat in the Garngad in the east end of Glasgow, now known as Royston, where vicious street gangs were beginning to take hold.However, his ambition was to be a detective and he soon became one after passing the necessary certificates with flying colours. He was also the youngest officer in the City of Glasgow Police to be presented with an award for arresting and securing the convictions of the greatest number of criminals.One that stuck with him through his career came from a veteran detective John Forbes."But you can't bring a man to the dock using his methods."But it is twice as hard to deter the evidence to satisfy the juice that they have the right man before them.
Thanks to the efforts of Colquhoun and this team three members of the gang were given jail terms of up to ten years. Gertrude was a happy, likeable young woman with an appetite for life. She went out one day to Inveraray to post a letter to her father in Lifford, Donegal. The killing shocked the Highland community and baffled Detective Superintendent Colquhoun who had been sent north to take charge.
Test bullets from revolvers belonging to several thousand Commando troops were fired into cotton-wool wadding and analysed.No match was found for the bullets that had brutally taken Gertrude's life. Colquhoun wondered if the first shot was accidental and after bandaging the wound the gunman realised he was in trouble, panicked and fired three more shots at close range.There were later claims that the military tried to cover up the crime because of the impact it might have on morale and discipline if it was discovered that the killer was a senior rank.
In a crime which shocked the city her home was broken into and £4.50 stolen. Nan died after the robber tied her to a chair.The main suspect 32-year-old John Reid was dubbed the Slim Jim Killer by the press because of the distinctive tie used to truss up his victim - known as a Slim Jim tie.However, their lawyers argued that they had not intended to kill the woman during the robbery and they were both convicted instead of culpable homicide. Reid was given 12 years and his co-accused five.
Echoing modern concerns about the treatment of people with mental health issues, the victim’s mother blamed the system rather than the teenager for her daughter's death.One of Colquhoun's most significant cases involved the arrest of 21-year-old Robert Scott in 1958 for the murder of 51-year-old police informant and car sprayer William Vincent.
On one occasion in 1957, he had been attacked by a 19-year-old man, who stole £260 of cash and valuables.
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