In the early 1960s mums and dads were living in fear for the safety of their young sons
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He said he had been coaxed into a disused shop by a chubby man with a scar on his cheek who offered him ten shillings to help lift a fireplace grating. Remembering his boss’s orders to be on the lookout for anything like the earlier incident, the young police officer looked inside and saw a sight that made him sick to his stomach. Tied to a chair was the body of a teenage boy.Police were able to confirm his identity as missing Fred Dowden.Horrified detectives then discovered a Mr Blue had rented another empty building in Govan in Glasgow a few weeks earlier.to snatch another victim.
His fingerprints matched those found in the Dumbarton shop and surgery; he was picked out at an identity parade and then positively identified by the owners of the premises as Mr Green and Mr Black. PC MacLeod, the man who found murdered Fred, went on to have a distinguished career in the police reaching the rank of Detective Chief Inspector. He retired in 1980 after 31 years’ service and died in 2013.His one unsolved murder was the case of 63-year-old security guard Eddie Cotogno, who was found dead in his flat in Dumbarton in 1979, after it had been set on fire.
Givens also escaped the hangman’s noose. At the time capital punishment was still available to the courts.
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