By 1968 Alex Snr was a Corporal with the Royal Air Force in Lincolnshire. Their marriage was on the rocks and she moved back to Glasgow with young Alex to live with mum and dad. On Thursday, February 22, 1968, Patricia had decided to have a night out and was in her best clothes. It had been bitterly cold that day, so she had also wrapped up well in a duffel coat which had a fur collar.
READ MORE: Patricia told her parents that she was going to the upmarket Majestic Ballroom in Hope Street in the city centre, But for some unknown reason, she went instead to the more downmarket Barrowland Ballroom in the city s Gallowgate, about two miles away, where they had a regular over 25s night.