The police officer was on a routine patrol when he spotted smoke billowing from a top-floor tenement flat... what he found was a murder.
The flat in Dumbarton, 20 miles from Glasgow, appeared to be empty.
The fire had clearly been started by the killer in an attempt to hide what they had done and to destroy any incriminating evidence.Wee Eddie was a quiet man who kept to himself and also worked as an optical technician.Had he crossed someone in his work as a security guard? In the porn factory he called home, detectives found numerous boxes of pictures ranging from soft porn to obscene.Maybe one of the models had carried out the attack herself, fearing family or friends might discover her dark secret?Was the scattering of porn photos over the body a deliberate attempt to make it look as if an irate husband or woman had been the killer?He also had an antiques stall at the Barras and from there he would sell the photographs under the counter to customers.
He was also known to police for a series of brutal robberies that had taken place in the city during the 1970sBut he had an alibi for the night of the murder - he was at his mother-in-law's in Glasgow for dinner with his wife.Detectives even traced some of the models, but with no witnesses, no murder weapon or forensics, the trail for the killer went cold very quickly.He was clearly vital to the investigation and without him or any other clues the inquiry was eventually wound down.
In 2001, Sinclair was given another life sentence, this time for the rape and murder of 17-year-old Mary Gallacher in Springburn in November 1978. A cold case review had identified him as the prime suspect.Then three Scottish police forces came together to launch Operation Trinity, a review of a series of unsolved murders of seven women and possible links to Sinclair.
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