A grieving daughter believes the sex killer who murdered her mum and escaped justice for three decades had an accomplice.
Evil Graham McGill was sentenced to life last year for strangling mother-of-11 Mary McLaughlin, 58, to death in her Glasgow flat.
Her daughter, Gina McGavin, believes McGill, snared following a DNA breakthrough, did not act alone and said she is willing to meet him killer to find out the truth.
Gina, who has relentlessly pursued justice, even launched her own investigations during the 30-year-hunt for the murderer and said she does not believe he met Mary “by chance”.
McGill was on the last night of temporary release from prison when he strangled Mary with her dressing gown cord at her home in September 1984.
Her body was found six days later – but her killer was already back inside prison and did not figure in the original police investigation.
Gina said: “I am still convinced he did not meet or follow my mother by chance. Why was he in Glasgow?
“Who was he with? Who did he meet? We’ve never had an answer to that. He randomly goes to Glasgow on his leave and chooses to murder my mother? I just don’t believe it.
“I am convinced there are too many loose ends and unanswered questions.”
Gina said she believes discrepancies in statements were ignored during the trial.
She added: “A lot of things don’t add up. I have asked the prosecutors but they cannot answer me. So I want to speak to Graham McGill. I want to meet him and ask him the questions I have because it goes over and over in my mind all the things that happened.
“If he has any remorse, he would agree and let me speak to him. It’s the least he owes for destroying so many lives.”
Last year, a court heard how “Wee Mary”, as she was known, was said to have struck up a conversation with a man – now known to be 22-year-old McGill – and was seen walking back to Crathie Court on Laurel Street in Partick where she lived.
She was never seen alive again. By 2008, four separate reviews had failed to yield any profiles of a suspect.
In 2014, the Daily Record ran an “unsolved” series detailing Mary’s murder. A short time later, a fifth review was launched and this time scientists unlocked a profile.
During the trial, DNA of McGill – found guilty last month – was extracted from a knot in a dressing gown ligature.
McGill apparently confessed to his ex-wife he had strangled a woman.
Gina said: “I want him to know what my mother’s death felt like to me and I want him to tell me some truths.
“I am determined to find out if he acted alone or not.”
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