Episode 64: Gordon Johnston. This week Joannagh brings us the story of Gordon Johnston.
Gordon was a 53-year-old man who, in May 1989, was attacked and killed during a violent robbery of the gun and fishing equipment shop where he had worked for 37 years.
Joannagh describes how this vicious robbery was part of a wider series of crimes planned by Gordon's killers which would have included kidnapping and extortion.
We hear how a combination of the conscience of a family member and the killers' own bungling plans, gave Police the breakthrough in the case they needed to catch and charge them with Gordon's murder.
Case research by Emma Taylor
Produced by Emma Taylor & Joannagh Shanks
Editing by Shaun O'Neill
Music by Tribe of Noise
Sources of research:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73myvhyGDTQ
https://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/2014/01/31/gows-of-dundee-owner-the-store-meant-everything-to-me/
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/11970054.two-jailed-for-life-after-atrocity-at-gun-shop/
https://www.ddtours.co.uk/archive/gordon-johnston-1989/
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000564/19890515/102/0009
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000564/19890517/114/0007
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000564/19890520/053/0004
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12245701.cruel-and-sadistic-killer-has-release-hopes-dashed/
