The World's End Part 3 / Angus Sinclair & The Murders of Christine Eadie and Helen Scott

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🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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PLEASE LISTEN TO ‘SEASON 9 - EPISODES 48 & 49’ FOR PARTS ONE AND TWO OF THIS THREE-PART CASE. Investigators wanted to get justice for the World’s End victims, but they would need the law to be changed in order for that to happen (Part 3 of 3)…

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0:00.0	This episode contains distressing themes and descriptions of sexual violence.
0:13.3	This podcast is intended for a mature audience.
0:17.8	Listener caution is advised.
0:35.2	Angus Robertson Sinclair had been accused of being involved in one of the most notorious murder cases in Scottish history.
0:39.1	Still a prosecution decision meant that he was acquitted.
0:45.9	Sinclair had spent around 12 years of his adult life out of prison, but in that time he was suspected of committing some of the most deplorable crimes against both women and children.
0:52.4	Investigators wanted to get justice for the World's End victims,
0:56.8	but they would need the law to be changed in order for that to happen.
1:01.3	The World's End murders were named after one of the last places Helen Scott and Christine Eadie were seen alive.
1:07.0	It was a crime that scarred the conscience of an entire city.
1:10.0	The 17-year-olds had been on a night out in Edinburgh's old town in October 1977.
1:15.6	The next day, Christine's naked body was found on a beach in East Lothian.
1:19.4	Helen was discovered six miles away in a field.
1:22.1	Both had been tied up and strangled.
1:24.0	30 years later, in 2007, Angus Sinclair stood trial for the murders, but was acquitted due to insufficient evidence.
1:32.2	Welcome to Season 9 episode 50 of They Walk Among Us, a podcast dedicated to UK true crime.
1:42.4	Please listen to Season 9 episodes 48 and 49 for parts 1 and 2 of this three-part case.
1:57.1	Following Angus Sinclair's acquittal for the murders of 17-year-old friends Helen Scott and Christine Edie in 2007,
2:06.2	there were calls for the 800-year-old double jeopardy law to be altered.
2:11.7	The double jeopardy law prevents a person from being tried for the same offence twice.
2:17.8	In 2009, the Scottish Law Commission had yet to clarify whether any changes to the law
2:24.0	would allow for a retrial.
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