Body in Suitcase Murderer Gets Life; Life for Man Who Killed Childhood Pal and Dumped Him in River

Evening Times › April 19, 2004

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A drug addict who used his feet to cram his murdered friend's body into a suitcase was starting a life sentence today - after leaving his footprints on the corpse.

A jury took just an hour and a half to find Kevin Gibson, 24, guilty of battering his childhood pal to death and attempting to defeat the ends of justice by dumping the body in a suitcase in the Water of Leith.

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Body in Suitcase Murderer Gets Life; Life for Man Who Killed Childhood Pal and Dumped Him in River

Tragic Timmy Wallace, 24, had been savagely kicked and punched in a nearby down-and-outs' hostel in Edinburgh. His body lay f...

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