8 Heinous Scottish Criminals - And Their Crimes

The World's End pub stands to this day at the foot of the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, taking its name from a gate that stood in the city walls and marked where the "rest of the world" began. This gate was located immediately outside of the pub door and brass cobbles still mark its location.

What it is arguably most infamous for are the "World's End Pub Murders" in 1977, named because the two victims were last seen alive when leaving this location. Christine Eadie and Helen Scott were two 17-year-old girls that were raped and murdered and, bodies dumped six miles apart in East Lothian.

Despite no suspects being found at the time, when a Crimewatch episode covered the case in 2003 a number of phone calls were made to the police which later led to the arrest of Angus Sinclair. When he went on trial, due to much of the evidence being circumstantial, his lawyers managed to persuade the judge that there was no case to answer and he was formally acquitted.

The public outcry following this decision was enormous and amplified when it was let slip that Sinclair had previously been convicted of both murder and sexual crimes. The entire Scottish Law surrounding "double jeopardy" was altered and he was retried in 2014, receiving a minimum term of 37 years - the longest given in a Scottish courtroom.