Thursday 20th September, A seven-week-old baby goes missing from her pram on Torness Street, in Glasgow’s West End around 7pm. At 12 midnight, the baby is found dead, suspected murdered. At 2:30am, an official announcement is made charging the neighbour – a 10-year-old girl – with the murder. Four days later, the body of an eight-week-old baby is found in the Kingston area of the city, smothered in his pram. Only three days on and Glasgow’s police are, yet again, mystified by another attack on a ten-week-old baby, this time in the Garthamlock area. Remembering of course, that during the 21st, 22nd, 23rd and 24th the ten-year-old “baby murderer” from Torness Street is already in a remand home, which makes this particular week in 1962 rather troublesome because in that one week, that’s now… three babies.
