Draft:Murder of Jacqueline Gallagher
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The Murder of Jacqueline Gallagher took place on 24 June 1996 when 26-year-old heroin addict and prostitute Jacqueline “Jackie” Gallagher from Paisley was last seen alive in a street near Glasgow city centre,[1][2] at Bothwell Street, which connects with Blythswood Street, where her body would be found the next day. Her bruised and half-naked body was found dumped in a lay-by off the A814 near Bowling, Dunbartonshire.[3][4] The body had been wrapped in a unique homemade curtain. The post-mortem examination revealed that she had been repeatedly struck with a hammer, and strangled; there were bite and ligature marks on her body; and in all Statham had sustained 118 injuries including 46 to the head and neck, fractures to her skull, jaw, and cheekbones (her teeth had been knocked out), as well as to both hands (consistent with attempts at defense).[5] The inquiry was given a huge boost after we appealed for witnesses to a sighting of a black BMW car in the lay-by at around the time that the body was dumped.[6] Four months later, Jackie was interred in her hometown of Paisley, his service at Oakshaw Trinity Church preceding the funeral at Hawkhead Cemetery. The case was left unsolved for years, and in 2001, a man named George Johnstone, aged 43, from Erskine, the same town as Jackie McCrorie, was arrested after his DNA matched that found on her clothes. He was convicted in 2004 at the High Court in Glasgow, where he faced charges of attacking her with a hammer, tying her hands, biting her, and putting a rope around her neck.[7]
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[edit]- ^ "The Glasgow crime story of the murder of Jackie Gallagher". Glasgow Times. 2022-01-05. Retrieved 2025-09-15.
- ^ Ashford, Jenny (2024-08-26). "Jacqueline Gallagher". Crime Immemorial. Retrieved 2025-09-15.
- ^ "The Glasgow sex workers whose murders remain unsolved". 2024-03-04. Retrieved 2025-09-15.
- ^ "Turmoil for family of dead woman". 2004-06-08. Retrieved 2025-09-15.
- ^ "A timeline of murder". The Herald. 2015-05-17. Retrieved 2025-09-15.
- ^ "Victim's mother considers action". 2004-06-09. Retrieved 2025-09-15.
- ^ "BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Jacqui murder charge not proven". news.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2025-09-15.