Ulster: Murder In The Glen
The Sunday Times 20/10/1968

Iain Hay Gordon, a young Glaswegian national serviceman was stitched up for the Murder of Patricia Curran, daughter of a Protestant Judge in Belfast 1952. Knowing that it didn’t really hold water, Gordon was quietly returned to Glasgow by the Home Office, avoiding the gallows, and later released. This was my first story for the Sunday Times Magazine, as a freelance, soon after I returned from South Africa and it got me a staff job. It was a stark example of the institutions protecting themselves, in the volatile climate of Northern Ireland, and a blatant miscarriage of justice which ruined the lives of the young Iain Gordon and his family.

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