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EXPERT WRONG MAN JAILED FOR TYPIST MURDER
Sunday Mail
|July 12, 2020
A leading crime expert believes a miscarriage of justice is at the heart of “one of the most important murders in British history”.
Professor David Wilson has examined the case of George Beattie, who was 19 when he was jailed for stabbing typist Margaret McLaughlin, 23, of Carluke, Lanarkshire, in 1973.
Wilson, who grew up in the town, remembered hearing people say that the wrong man was behind bars – and now he thinks he has uncovered the truth.
The academic, who taught criminology at Birmingham City University, has written a book about evidence which he believes points to another man, who lived yards from the woods where the murder happened.
This story is from the July 12, 2020 edition of Sunday Mail.
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