It was June 17, 1994, and Constable Lewis Fulton kissed wife Christine and seven-month-old baby son Luke goodbye as he headed off from his home in…
It was June 17, 1994, and Constable Lewis Fulton kissed wife Christine and seven-month-old baby son Luke goodbye as he headed off from his home in Kilmarnock to start an early shift in Glasgow.
McFadden’s two sisters and a young child, McFadden’s niece, who had been in the property were also led to safety. Meanwhile, McFadden had been overpowered and taken into police custody. He appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court the following Monday on a charge of murdering Constable Fulton. McFadden’s case was called at the High Court in Edinburgh in September where he was found insane and unfit to plead and ordered to be detained at the State Hospital in Carstairs, Lanarkshire.
Other measures such as CS gas incapacitant sprays, side-handed batons, rigid handcuffs and better self-defence training were introduced as well as new procedures for dealing with people with mentalIn 2000, McFadden now 25 was thought to have recovered sufficiently to stand trial for murder at the High Court in Glasgow.After hearing all the expert medical evidence the jury found him not guilty of Lewis’s murder because he was insane at the time of the killing.
Mary McFadden made nine phone calls on the morning of Lewis’s murder and pleaded with her local GP surgery for help. Speaking afterwards, Georgette Fulton, Lewis’s mother said: “It was important for us to have this trial so that we could see the full circumstances of what happened to Lewis made public, “The verdict is the best we could have hoped for.“Our main feeling right now is one of relief that it is finally all over.”Sheriff Edward Bowen found that had protective equipment been introduced earlier it might have saved Lewis’s life.
“The police were summoned, and responded rapidly, to a request to attend at what was on the face of it a domestic incident. In 2003, she co-founded the charity Care of Police Survivors drawing on her own experiences of losing a loved one.
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