The Law Killers by Alexander McGregor

Author:Alexander McGregor [McGregor, Alexander]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781845025625
Publisher: Black & White Publishing

The jury have convicted you of nauseating and barbaric crimes. The sentence is imprisonment for life.

In view of the fact you have previously been convicted of murder and in view of the wicked nature of these crimes, it is my duty to recommend to the Secretary of State that you should not be released on licence until at least twenty years have elapsed.

After Thompson was removed from the dock, the judge turned to face the jury. With sympathy replacing the venom he had directed at the accused man, His Lordship told them softly, ‘I would not have wished your task on my worst enemy. You have had to listen to distasteful and horrendous evidence and have stuck to your task manfully. Your part in this sordid affair is now at an end.’

It was not the finish of the story, however, as far as the man who had been incarcerated for his second life sentence was concerned. Three months after ending up once more in Perth Prison, Thompson revealed to an acquaintance where he had taken some of the other body parts, even drawing on a biscuit wrapper a map pinpointing the location under a disused rail bridge in Strathmartine Road, near Kirkton. They were discovered precisely where he had indicated. But despite a massive citywide search, the head of his victim was never found, though it was suspected it may have been deposited in a rubbish skip near the killer’s home in Haldane Terrace.

Nearly two years later, Thompson was back in the dock in Edinburgh, this time to hear the Court of Criminal Appeal turn down his plea that he had been the victim of a miscarriage of justice. He was well used to protesting his innocence. Four days after beginning his second life term, Thompson had penned an eloquent, perfectly punctuated, 3,000-word letter to the Courier newspaper – which went unpublished – the thrust of which was that he had not killed his grandmother. He also gave a detailed, and in places, moving account of his largely institutionalised life.

Turning to the murder of Gordon Dunbar, the butcher of Butterburn Court concluded:

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