Scottish Toriesâ bid to keep killers locked up if they stay silent on where victims are buried
Douglas Ross is pledging to introduce Suzanneâs Law â named after Edinburgh woman Suzanne Pilley â who was murdered in 2010.
Suzanne Pilley (Image: PA)
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It’s the only case where a suspect confessed to murder even though there was no body. It’s also the only homicide where the killer claimed to have heard his victim’s voice from beyond the grave. Michael Topham was caught purely by chance while detectives from the Strathclyde Serious Crime Squad were investigating a series of jewellery thefts in Pollokshaws. People’s homes were being broken into in the spring of 1980 while they were at work. The cops, as is normal practice, checked on known local burglars but there was no evidence linking them to the crimes. An undercover operation was launched one afternoon using an unmarked police car and detectives in plain clothes in a bid to trap the robber.
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