Glasgow Crime Stories extended: Death of Willie McRae
The third episode of our Glasgow Crime Stories focuses on the death of veteran lawyer Willie McRae.
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The third episode of our Glasgow Crime Stories focuses on the death of veteran lawyer Willie McRae.
It was Good Friday, April 5, 1985, and veteran lawyer Willie McRae was heading to his Highland holiday cottage in the Ross-Shire village of Dornie near Skye. He had left his flat in Queens Park on Glasgow's South Side around 6:30pm and expected to complete the 175 mile car journey in around four hours. As McRae neared the weekend retreat later that Friday he would almost certainly have been looking forward to sitting in front of a peat fire and enjoying a glass of his favourite malt whisky. However, he never arrived and what happened that night still causes controversy and debate more...