by ironjoe » Sat Jul 29, 2006 12:50 am
no pamd i did not know Andrea, although i stayed at 23 baliol st for 2 years (74-76) so i suppose i must have seen her a some point. I live in Royston and we had a young boy murdered here about a year and a half ago, we set up a group to try and make changes to the law (childrens voice) but the boys mother was part of the group and some of the stuff getting discussed was hurting to her memories and there was other influences acting at the time that made it impossible to continue with the group. So the mother continued her campaign with the NOTW newspapaper, and i`ve been plodding along myself just researching anything i can find on this ever growing plauge. Anyway the murderer from here got life with 20 year rec, and at a meeting with Cathie Jamieson (justice minister) i suggested that she appeal the sentence and demand natural life, to which she replied that IT WAS SAFE TO ASSUME THE THE BEAST WOULD NEVER BE RELEASED , to which i replied with some details of tervet and how i believed he has been released. The beast from Royston was 28, he could be out before he is 50, a 7 times convicted sex offender, thats scarey.Well the mother and local mp is calling for Marks law after her son (Mark Cummins), i personally dont care what it is called as long as there are changes to the law, but by the same token it could be called Andrea`s law, but as i said previous, nobody i speak to remembers her. For some reason, whether its because i knew tervet or for some other reason, Andrea`s murder has always stayed with me and everytime i hear of a child being abused or murdered, i think of Andrea, i hope soon to do a web page (Remembering Andrea) in her memory.
In fact it was only by chance that i got futher with my research, i know some people who work at NOTW , and i asked if they could find out anything from the archives, i only remembered Andrea,tervet and that her murder was in charing cross sometime in the 70`s , the people i asked said they could find nothing.Then about 2 weeks ago a freind of about 15 years was passing and stopped to tell me about a benefit football match coming up for little Mark`s mother and brothers, i mentioned Andrea,and to my amazement he said "i remember that wee lassie, her name was Andrea Hedger it was 77 or 78 she was killed" so i typed her name in google and it brought me here.
And yes Viceroy, the Daily Record micro film is in the cabinet beside the times archives, but went through April to July and could not find a thing, this got me thinking is it possible the the times was dated wrong and that pamd was in fact correct thinking it was 1977.I know this is extremely unlikely, but i`m going back up the Mitchell next week and i`m gonna check the Record Archives from 1977.I will keep you guy`s up to date with anything i find out. I got all the times stuff (including A3 front pages) printed off, quite a good system up there for research and copying.
Joe