#JusticeForCaroline arrives at Westminster
West Dunbartonshire MP Martin Docherty-Hughes has taken Justice for Caroline to the UK Parliament.
West Dunbartonshire MP Martin Docherty-Hughes has taken our Justice for Caroline campaign to Westminster.
On the 24th of August 1996 Caroline Glachan was brutally murdered and her body was discovered in the River Leven. The police launched an investigation but they could not pin down who was responsible, and as the years have passed there have been no breakthroughs.
The SNP MP has now declared his support for our Justice for Caroline campaign, and today his Early Day Motion has been lodged in the House of Commons on Radio Clyde and Caroline’s family’s behalf.
Caroline’s mum Margaret McKeich, who issued a fresh appeal to the public for answers last week said she is grateful for our support and that she’d do anything to put her daughter’s memory to rest.
She said; “I’m just happy someone has taken up the sword, so-to-speak, because it does go into the backs of people’s minds. I just want to keep refreshing it so for a profile like Martin to raise it at the House of Commons, I’m over the moon.”
“The case needs fresh eyes, maybe a fresh angle to go at. It does get stale after twenty years, so to have the Radio Clyde campaign and Martin, you just don’t know what can come out of it. But if nothing comes out of it, I don’t feel it’s a waste of time.”
Last week police committed to re-examining the evidence in the case, in the hope that the latest forensic technology can catch Caroline’s killers.
Martin said; “I want to help bring the case to a conclusion, not just for Caroline and her family but for the whole community of the Alexandria area.
“It’s about putting this case to rest, so that on the next anniversary of Caroline’s death we are no longer talking about this and the case is solved.”
“Given that policing is devolved, I’ll be using my powers in the UK parliament with an Early Day Motion, calling on the community to work together with Police Scotland, which will raise the profile of the case and let Caroline’s family know we are taking this seriously.”