Book description
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 is 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.
David Johnston has been a journalist in Scotland for over 20 years,
spending most of that time as Head of News with Radio Forth.