This is an account of the murder of two young women, Helen Scott and Christine Eadie, who died in October 1977. It is the story of these crimes and of the thirty year investigation that followed. This is not a gruesome tale of murder; the families of these young girls have suffered enough. Nor is this account devoted to the controversy in which the trial of Angus Sinclair was brought to an end in the Autumn of 2007. This a story of heroes, of the families of Helen and Christine who, with a quiet dignity, have carried an unimaginable burden down the years, and the police officers, the support staff and the scientists who over the generations have persisted in their investigations, never gave up and though they suffered many a setback never forgot Helen and Christine.
The World’s End Murders is an intelligent, compassionate and insightful account of a time and place in Scottish criminal history which both carefully examines the World’s End murders and sensitively restores afresh the memory of two innocent young women, as well as the others who fell victim in 1977 and 1978.
Tom Wood was one of Scotland’s most senior and experienced operational police officers. He is an authority on crime, the policing of large scale events and a noted authority on police perspectives on drugs and alcohol. He has a distinguished record of study of police operations and management and has an MSc degree in Legal Studies from Edinburgh University. He has also attended the FBI Academy and completed the Senior Command Course at the Police Staff College at Bramshill. He was appointed a Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit in 1994 and was awarded The Queen’s Police Medal in 1995. Latterly he 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.
David Johnston has been a journalist in Scotland for over 20 years, spending most of that time as Head of News with Radio Forth.
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