Who Killed Patricia Curran? : How a Judge, Two Clergymen and Various Policemen Conspired to Frame a Vulnerable Man

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A 20 year old RAF technician, Iain Hay Gordon, who had met Patricia at the Presbyterian church they both attended, was convicted of her murder. His sentence was overturned in 2000 after the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal found it to be unsafe. [7]

A pile of her belongings 10 yards away were dry despite the fact it had been raining most of the night, her wristwatch broken, suggesting, a fight, but neither the missing hands nor broken glass found at the scene. his handwriting was tiny and detailed, and resembled the written manifestation of an arcane practice".... And so it goes on, one verbose sentence after another, tagged on to otherwise quite normal passages.According to his statement, Dr Wells arrived at Dr Wilson’s surgery at 5am on 13 November and took charge. The body was almost fully clothed, with the right glove, hat, scarf and shoes missing. He began his examination on arrival and found the entire musculature fixed in rigor mortis. He formed the opinion that death took place in the region of 12 hours earlier. (Did this fit in with the noise that young George Chambers had heard on the evening of the murder?) Nor could could they see in this immature and confused young man any sign of the disciplined criminal mind who had, a jury had found, committed a most horrific assault on a young woman, and managed to conceal every trace of evidence linking him to the crime.

I really tried to keep going with it but had to give up. It just reminded me of pulpy historical novels that I used to read as a teenager - Jean Plaidy and the like.The purpose of publishing Who Killed Patrica Curran? on the 70th anniversary of her death is to fill in the gaps in public knowledge of an unloved murder which has perplexed many, and to repair the damage to the victim’s reputation. Too many people believe a garbled version of Patricia’s story in which her alleged promiscuity played a part in her death. In fact the autopsy showed that she died a virgin. Patricia Curran was the daughter of a High Court Judge - Lord Justice Curran - and there has always been speculation one of the Curran family either committed the murder or that they helped cover it up. Surely the time has come for the truth of what happened to be told, time for the ghosts of the past to be slain, time to mourn your sister properly, and to remember the fate of Iain Hay Gordon. The connection in all three books – as with other of McNamee’s novels, including those set during the Troubles – is the miscarriage of justice.