PETER MANUEL
In 1946, aged just 16, Peter Manuel was jailed for a string of sexual attacks.
After his release in the mid-1950s, he became the country’s worst serial killer.
In January 1956, he stalked Anne Kneilands, 17, at an East Kilbride golf course, raping and bludgeoning her to death.
That September, he shot Marion Watt, 45, and her daughter Vivienne, 17, as well as Marion’s sister Margaret Brown, 41, in their L- Glasgow home.
And Manuel’s killing spree continued. In December 1957, Manuel shot taxi driver Sydney Dunn, 36 – and, later that month, Isabelle Cooke, 17, was raped, strangled and buried in a Lanarkshire field.
On New Year’s Day 1958, Peter Smart, 45, his wife Doris, 42, and son Michael, 10, were shot in their beds.
Manuel was…
