Introduction to 'Gone Fishing. The Unsolved Crimes of Angus Sinclair'

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🗓️ 11 July 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

As you may well know, I recently wrote a book about the solved and unsolved crimes of Angus Sinclair, which was published almost two weeks ago.

When I started researching this book two years ago, I knew very little about Angus Sinclair. If you don't know too much about his crimes, I thought you might be interested in the opening chapter of the book. Here is it...

You can buy 'Gone Fishing. The Unsolved Crimes of Angus Sinclair' as paperback or for kindle on Amazon:

Gone Fishing: The Unsolved Crimes of Angus Sinclair: Amazon.co.uk: Chris Clark, Adam Lloyd: 9781914277221: Books

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0:00.0	Fasten your seatbelts. Easy jets big orange sail is now on. With up to 20% of 700,000 seats
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0:30.0	Hello, it's Adam from the UK True Crime Podcast. I thought we'd record a special episode this evening
0:37.0	about the book that I've just written, Gone Fishing, The Unsolved Crimes of Angus and Claire.
0:44.0	When I started researching Angus and Claire two years ago, I knew very little about him.
0:49.0	If you never really listened about him, as I did, then let me give you a flavour of the book, but just reading you the introduction.
0:57.0	It was just before 8am on an unremarkable March day in 2019. When the Silver Ford Mondays O State,
1:04.0	we've blacked out windows, pulled up in a covered area outside in the main building of Full Kirk Crematorium.
1:11.0	It had opened early for the secret commation, but there were no mourners, no music, and no eulogy.
1:18.0	When we were in black suits, white shirts and black ties, the four undertakers of a local company
1:24.0	quickly removed the plain, pine-effect brass handle coughing from the car through a metal trolley
1:29.0	and carried it inside to a downstairs room ahead of the cremation.
1:33.0	It took little over 10 seconds for the ceremony to be completed, and the ashes were returned to Clack Mancher Council,
1:41.0	where officials later revealed that the ashes were disposed of at sea after they went unclaimed.
1:47.0	And so concluded the life of Angus and Clare, one of the worst killers, the UK has ever seen.
1:54.0	Angus and Clare was 73 when he was pronounced dead at 4.20am on the length of March 2019.
2:02.0	It's understood, police registered his death after a reddit is refused.
2:07.0	His death certificate listed his occupation as painted decorator, but as Sinclair had been locked up since the late 1980s,
2:14.0	work was not something that had been part of his life for a long time.
2:18.0	Sinclair's death in prison in Allowa was a lonely one.
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