S12E08 | The Murder of Mary McLaughlin (Partick, Glasgow, 1984)
British Murders with Stuart Blues
Stuart Blues
4.7 • 699 Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I tell the story of Mary McLaughlin, a 58-year-old woman killed in Partick, Glasgow, in September 1984.
Mary was last seen in the company of a stranger, a man, on September 26, 1984, after spending the evening in a pub with her friends.
Six days later, her body was found in her home on Laurel Street by Martin Cullen, one of her 11 children, and his then-partner. Somebody had strangled Mary with the cord of her dressing gown.
Thirty-five years would pass before Police Scotland arrested serial sex offender Graham McGill after advances in DNA technology placed him in Mary's flat at the time of her murder.
Judge Lord Burns handed McGill a life sentence with a minimum term of 14 years in May 2021, almost four decades after Mary's murder.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast contains elements that may be alarming to some listeners. |
| 0:04.2 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:06.4 | You are now listening to British Brothers. |
| 0:09.8 | This will cry podcast. Hello everyone and welcome to British murders, the podcast focusing exclusively on British murder cases and serial killers. |
| 0:32.2 | I'm your host Stuart Blues and this is the eighth episode of season 12. |
| 0:36.8 | Before we get into it, let's break the ice as always. |
| 0:39.8 | The show's first opening icebreaker segment is this. |
| 0:43.3 | Do facts that sound like both? |
| 0:46.5 | Did you know? |
| 0:48.3 | French was the official language of England |
| 0:50.8 | after the Norman conquest of 1066 by William the Conqueror of France |
| 0:55.8 | until 1362 when English replaced it. From 1066 until 1362, French was mainly used by the |
| 1:05.3 | nobility, whereas English was generally spoken by the lower classes. By 1362, the Statue of Pleading had named |
| 1:13.4 | English as the official language of the courts. Now it's time for this show's final opening |
| 1:19.4 | icebreaker segment. Randal quote of the day. As you get older, three things happen. The first |
| 1:27.2 | is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two. |
| 1:31.7 | That was said by Sir Norman Wisdom. Listener Kelly Price requested this case via the contact form at Britishmerders.com. |
| 1:39.5 | We're in the Partic area of Glasgow this week, which is located 2.1 miles west of Glasgow City Centre, |
| 1:47.6 | 43 miles west of Edinburgh and 345 miles northwest of London. |
| 1:53.8 | Here are five quick fire facts about Partick. |
| 1:57.0 | Number one, the settlement was originally known as Purdic. |
| 2:01.6 | Per in Kumero-Keltic means sweet fruit, and Teck or Deck translates as fair or beautiful. |
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