Glasgow Crime Stories: Moors Muderer Ian Brady and his childhood in the city
It was January 2, 1938 and hotel waitress Margaret "Peggy" Stewart had just given birth at Glasgow's Rottenrow Hospital. At the age of 28, unmarried and lowly paid Peggy must have wondered what the future held for her son who she had christened Ian Duncan Stewart. It was not a good time to be the mother of an illegitimate child. Society, in general, frowned on those who gave birth to children born out of wedlock. READ MORE: To make matters worse the baby's father - a Glasgow newspaper reporter - had died three months earlier. Even if he had chosen to do so, there was no one to h...