UK - Mary McLaughlin, 58, murdered, Partick, Glasgow, Scotland, 26 Sept 1984 *Arrest in 2019*

[Legally Bland]

A man has been arrested and charged in connection with the death of a woman 35 years ago.

Mary McLaughlin, 58, was last seen alive on 26 September 1984 when she left a bar in the Hyndland area of Glasgow after a night out.

Her body was found in her home in Crathie Court on Laurel Street in Partick six days later.

Man arrested over death of woman in 1984

 

[Legally Bland]

On the night she was last seen Mary left the Hyndland Bar and walked along Dumbarton Road to the local chip shop, Armandos.

Witnesses told how Mary was in a good mood that night and was laughing and joking with staff.

She always asked them to say goodnight to her in Italian.

Detective Chief Inspector Suzanne Chow, of Police Scotland's Homicide Governance Review team, said: "Undetected and unresolved homicides in Scotland are never closed and the families of victims are never forgotten.

Man charged in connection with death 35 years ago of Glasgow mum Mary McLaughlin

 

[Alyce]

Mary was next seen around 100 yards from the chip shop walking down Crown Road in the company of a young man, it was the last time Mary was seen alive.
The police issued the following description of the man seen in Mary's company that night: he was slightly built, aged between 22 and 26, 5ft10 to 6ft tall, clean shaven with brownish neat cut hair worn bushy at the sides, possibly with a prominent nose. He was described as wearing a bomber or anorak style jacket, green or grey in colour, with green collar and cuffs, the remainder of his clothing was light coloured.

Despite police efforts this man was never traced and despite strenuous police efforts, the case soon went cold.






Old Glasgow Murders: Partick 1984: The Unsolved Murder of Mary Ann McLaughlin

 

[Elainera]

That's great news! He must be close to 60 now? I wonder what evidence they unearthed after all these years, probably re-tested items found at the scene?

It's sad that Mary was not found (or even searched for) for six days. It says in one of the articles she had 11 children! Where were they all? Was she estranged from her family?

I hope she gets justice now finally!

 

[Ann Blyth]

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/scottish-news/5034146/glasgow-murder-mary-mclaughlin-partick-cold-case/

was last before the court on 5 December when the defendant was RIC and was due to be put before the court again within 8 days but I have been unable to find any update?

 

[JerseyGirl]

Mary McLaughlin: Man to stand trial for 1984 murder

Lady Stacey set a trial due to begin next month and the court heard it could last up to seven days.

 

[ctaylor]

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-56505250

Graham McGill has been found guilty of Mary's murder. I'm from Glasgow and would see this case pop up intermittently in the press over the years. I'm glad Mary's have got justice.

 

[Legally Bland]

A SERIAL sex attacker who murdered a mum of 11 before evading justice for over three decades was finally jailed today for 14 years.

Graham McGill was 22 when he strangled Mary McLaughlin, 58, with her dressing gown cord after following her home.

[...]

McGill was never linked to the case at the time as he was back in prison when Mary’s son Martin Cullen, now 60, found his mother’s body in her flat six days later.

The was serving a six year term for two sex attacks - a rape and assault with intent to rape - after being jailed for six years in 1981.

[...]

Stranger McGill, who was on a five-day release from Edinburgh’s Saughton nick, tailed her home.

[...]

He was jailed in 1999 for attempting to rape a 24-year-old and got out in 2008.

[...]

But he was arrested in December 2019 after forensic scientist Joanne Cochrane used pioneering DNA24 tech to re-examine the dressing gown cord.

She found evidence of the killer and victim in a previously untied knot and identified a DNA match for McGill on a sex criminals database.

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/ne...claughlin-murder-graham-mcgill-killer-jailed/

 

[Tortoise]

14 years is an abyssmal sentence. I can't fathom that, it doesn't seem right.

 

[SJ16321]

14 years is an abyssmal sentence. I can't fathom that, it doesn't seem right.

That's the UK for you, some truly baffling sentences over here at times. The one that sticks out in my mind is the murder of Rachel McLean in 1991. I heard about it on a podcast and had to rewind the end bit as I thought I must have misheard the killer serving just 11 years before release. The killer was then later jailed for assaulting his partner so clearly wasn't fit for release.

 

[dotr]

Oct 2 2022

New crime show to examine Glasgow woman's murder case

THE new series of a crime talk show will analyse the “complexity” of a Glasgow woman’s murder case.

www.glasgowtimes.co.uk

''Convicted rapist Graham McGill was caged for life for the brutal murder of the mum-of-11 in May 2021.

In a third series of ‘David Wilson’s Crime Files’, the professor, who is one of the UK’s leading criminologists, focuses primarily on Scotland’s numerous cold cases.''



''Also in the new series of the show, David travels to Broughty Ferry, near Dundee, to tell the story of Jean Milne, a wealthy spinster who was found murdered in her family mansion.''

Ws thread..

UK - UK- Jean Milne, 69, Eccentric heiress, Church-goer, Bound, Bludgeoned @ Punctured with Carving Fork, Broughty Ferry, Scotland, 1912

rbbm 2021 https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/past-times/2196469/what-really-happened-to-eccentric-spinster-jean-milne-in-dundees-oldest-unsolved-murder-case/ ''Over 100 years ago the body of 69-year-old Jean Milne would be found bloodied at the bottom of the staircase of her grand Broughty Ferry...

www.websleuths.com

 

[TootsieFootsie]

How a cigarette butt helped solve a 30-year murder mystery

Serial sex offender Graham McGill was on parole when he murdered mother-of-11 Mary McLaughlin in 1984.

au.news.yahoo.com

A new BBC documentary, Murder Case: The Hunt for Mary McLaughlin's Killer, tells the story of the cold case investigation - as well as the devastating impact the murder had on Mary's family.