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Kill Total: |
2 |
Kill place: |
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Kill date: |
1961
1978 |
Victim(s): |
Catherine Reehill
Mary Gallagher |
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Date of Birth: |
1945 |
Marital Status: |
Single |
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AKA: |
Unknown |
Occupation: |
Painter &
decorator |
Sinclair's first brush with
the law was when he was 13 when he stole from a Glasgow
church. He received 12 months' probation for the crime,
committed in 1959.
Later that year Sinclair appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court
on a housebreaking charge, for which he was later found
innocent.
In 1961 Sinclair's life of crime took a new twist when he
was found guilty of lewd behaviour against an
eight-year-old girl, he was given three years' probation
Seven months into that probationary period he murdered for
the first time.
Catherine Reehill was eight
years old in 1961, when Sinclair sexually assaulted and
strangled her at his home.
He threw her body down a
stairwell and told the little girl's mother that the death
had been an accident.
After being questioned by
detectives Sinclair confessed to culpable homicide and was
sentenced to 10 years in jail.
While in Edinburgh's
Saughton Prison serving his sentence for Catherine's
murder, he trained as a painter and decorator.
1970 he married trainee nurse Sarah McCulloch in
Edinburgh and two years later they had a son Gary whom
they brought up in Glasgow.
1980 he had a short
spell in prison for illegally possessing a .22 calibre
revolver and ammunition. Police investigations found he
had committed a string of indecent assaults and rapes
against boys and girls aged between eight and 11.
1982 he pleaded
guilty to 11 charges and was sentenced to life in prison.
2000, Police did a
cold case review of the unsolved murder of Mary Gallagher,
which had happened in November 1978.
She had been dragged into bushes, sexually assaulted, had
had her throat cut and had a ligature round her neck.
Among the forensic files there was a sample of semen which
was DNA tested and showed a profile matching Sinclair's.
June 2001 He was convicted of the murder and
received a further life sentence.
October 2006
Sinclair appeared at the
High Court in Edinburgh accused of raping and murdering
Christine Eadie and Helen Scott, the Worlds end killings.
The charges alleged he acted with his brother-in-law
Gordon Hamilton who died in 1996.
27th August 2007
The trial begins at the
high court in Edinburgh,
10th September 2007
trial collapses.
Sinclair had denied
attacking and killing 17-year-olds Christine Eadie and
Helen Scott in what became known as the World's End
murders case.
Judge Lord Clarke said the
Crown had insufficient evidence to proceed.
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