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Podcast: The BelTel
Episode: Best of the BelTel: The murder of Patricia Curran and the innocent man framed for it (Part 1)
Description: The early hours of the morning on the 12th of November 1952, a judge’s daughter, Patricia Curran, is found dead in the garden of her family home. She had been stabbed 37 times. The BelTel looks at the shocking killing and how Iain Hay Gordon, a young Scot doing his national service in the RAF, was intimidated into signing a false confession, frightened that his mother would find out about his sex life. Ciarán Dunbar is joined by journalist Stephen Gordon, who’s been fascinated by this horrific murder for a long.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. H...