These three murders all bear the hallmarks of serial killer Sinclair

Ex-detective says cops had lead on fiend's violent spree around pub deaths, New book shines light on unsolved cases and problems with investigation

- NORMAN SILVESTER and MARCELLO MEGA

SERIAL killer Angus Sinclair has been linked to the unsolved murders of three young women.

Anna Kenny, Hilda McAuley and Agnes Cooney all died in a three-month period in 1977 after meeting their killer on nights out in Glasgow with friends.

At the time, the police hit a brick wall in their efforts to find the people responsible and inquiries were eventually wound down.

Now an ex-detective has linked the killings to World's End murderer Sinclair in a new publication, Midnight Stalkers, which looks at unsolved murders across the UK.

It reports how detectives efforts were hampered at the time by a lack of information from the public.

Sinclair, who died in 2019 in prison, was convicted in 2014 of the murders of Edinburgh teens Helen Scott and Christine Eadie - which became known as the World's End murders - and received his third life sentence.

Their murders came only weeks after the death of Hilda.

Midnight Stalkers tells how Anna, 20, disappeared on August 5, 1977, after a night out at the Hurdy Gurdy pub in Lister Street, Townhead, Glasgow.