IN APRIL, 1959, a 58-year-old widow, Mrs Helen McGhee, was found stabbed to death in her baby-linen shop at 1073 Cathcart Road, Mount Florida.

A knife was later found in her abandoned car, in Cambuslang, together with a number of items that were missing from the shop and from the dead woman.

A Cambuslang youth, John McGilvray, 17, was later charged with the murder of Mrs McGhee.

He denied the charge, and went on trial at the High Court in Glasgow.

The trial heard evidence of witness and fingerprint identification. A milkbottle top and a copy of the Evening Times, both found in the boot of the car, bore prints identical to those of the accused.

The defence presented medical evidence that McGilvray, while sane and fit to plead, had an emotional age of 12 to 13.

On July 7, McGilvray of Auld Kirk Road was found guilty of capital murder by a jury, and was ordered by Lord Sorn to be detained at Her Majesty's Pleasure.

Car abandoned here in Gilbertfield Road at the path entry to the glen.