Angus Sinclair It was 1982 and an evil sex predator had been stalking the streets of Glasgow for the last four years. He would lure girls as young as six into tenement closes then rape and sexually assault them. The mystery attacker would always grab his victims from behind so they would never see his face. Sometimes the fiend would strike twice on the same day. Since his reign of terror began in 1978 he d claimed at least ten victims but more were to follow. That year every cop in the city was on the lookout for the monster who showed no mercy or pity for his victims.
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Glasgow s search Beast of Ibrox who inflicted rape terror to city streets for almost 10 years FOR almost a decade a violent sexual predator stalked Ibrox, attacking and raping women at random. In a half-mile square area in the shadow of its imposing football stadium, eight females were raped between 1979 and 1987. Women of all ages were reluctant to go out on their own at night during that period for good reason. If they did venture out in the dark they at least made sure a friend or male relative accompanied them. The eighth rape in early 1987 would prove to be the most horrifying yet with the victim left for dead in freezing cold temperatures.
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