Season 4 - Episode 17
They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime
They Walk Among Us
4.5 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
He had already spent much of his teenage years in and out of facilities for youth offenders. Edinburgh-born Alastair Thompson, at only eighteen years old, was about to commit a heinous crime that would see him put behind bars for over a decade and a half.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to season 4 episode 17 of They Walk Among Us, a podcast dedicated to UK True Crime. |
| 0:28.9 | To our listeners in America we have some good news. |
| 0:32.5 | Our book They Walk Among Us is now available in the US. |
| 0:36.9 | Ten haunting and gripping cases that you can purchase online in paperback, e-book, or |
| 0:42.8 | or audiobook. |
| 0:49.8 | Listen a caution is advised, as this episode contains adult themes and descriptions that |
| 0:55.3 | some listeners may find distressing. |
| 1:10.8 | You'd already spent much of his teenage years in and out of facilities for youth offenders. |
| 1:17.2 | Edinburgh-born Alistair Thompson, at only 18 years old, was about to commit a heinous |
| 1:23.4 | crime that would see him put behind bars for over a decade and a half. |
| 1:29.7 | The young man murdered his 72-year-old grandmother, Margaret Thompson. |
| 1:35.6 | In a brutal and frenzied assault, Thompson hit her over the head twice with a hammer, |
| 1:41.8 | stabbing her with a large kitchen knife 16 times. |
| 1:46.8 | Around this period he also attempted but ultimately failed to kill a city bus driver. |
| 1:53.4 | Sentence to Edinburgh High Court for murder, Thompson would spend the majority of a 16-year |
| 1:58.9 | jail term predominantly at HMP Perth in Scotland. |
| 2:04.7 | Leaving prison on licence in 1984, at 34 years old, he was free to begin a new life. |
| 2:13.0 | Thompson pursued an education while in prison and he proved to be intelligent and eloquent. |
| 2:20.4 | His new life started out positively, it appeared as though Alistair returned over a new leaf. |
| 2:27.2 | At first settling in Perth, he was married with his wife working as a social worker employed |
| 2:33.0 | in the prison service. |
| 2:35.5 | But the couple didn't stay together long, Thompson moved to Dundee, Scotland and managed |
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