The re-trial of World’s End murder suspect Angus Sinclair will take place at the High Court in Livingston on October 6.
The 69 year old is accused of murdering Helen Scott and Christine Eadie while acting along with his brother-in-law Gordon Hamilton, who is now deceased, in October 1977
Sinclair appeared at Glasgow High Court yesterday for a preliminary hearing. He denies the two charges against him of raping and murdering the Edinburgh teenagers who were found dead after a night out at the World’s End pub in Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.
Sinclair originally stood trial in 2007, but was acquitted after a judge ruled there was no case to answer, but earlier this year the Crown Office was granted authority to bring a fresh prosecution following an application under the Double Jeopardy (Scotland) Act allowing suspects found not guilty in court to face a new trial.
Sinclair will be the first person to be retried under these new laws.
John graduated from Telford College in 2010 with an HNC in Practical Journalism and since then he worked for the North Edinburgh News, The Southern Reporter, the Irish News Review and The Edinburgh Reporter. In addition he has been published in the Edinburgh Evening News and the Hibernian FC Programme.
