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Two men have been detained and are in custody in connection with the death of Liam Aitchison said Northern Constabularly today.
Northern Constabulary set up a major enquiry team following the suspicious death
of 16 year-
Liam’s body was discovered in a hidden disused property in Steinish on the outskirts
of Stornoway a week last Tuesday. He had been missing for seven days and was last
seen around the town’s Macaulay Road Co-
Officers searching for him found his body in an abandoned concrete hut on the edge of Stornoway airport. Evidence at the death scene sparked a large scale investigation.
Police are appealing for witnesses who may have seen three people wearing hooded tops walking in the Steinish village area shortly after midnight on the night Liam disappeared.
It is the islands’ first serious death inquiry for five years, since 55-
The case did not receive much attention with the established local media. Only Hebrides News attended the court hearings. In a case which involved appalling gratuitous violence three men were later imprisoned after pleading guilty to serious assault.
A police error meant a “confession” of a fourth youth could not be used in court.
His not guilty plea to serious assault was accepted after a pre-
There has not been a murder conviction in the Western Isles in living memory. A high
profile murder trial over the death of Mary Mackenzie, 80, of Brue, Lewis, in 1968
returned a not proven verdict for 21-
.
Two men in custody over Stornoway death 10/12/11