Victim’s parents demand to know why Christopher McGowan, who had history of domestic abuse, was allowed to move in with daughter and her son
A serial offender with 40 convictions murdered his girlfriend in a “brutal and bestial” attack after being released on bail to live with her, a court has heard.
Christopher McGowan, 28, is facing a life sentence after a jury took less than two hours to find him guilty of the murder of Claire Inglis, who he strangled, choked with a baby wipe and burned with a lighter in her final moments.
Judge Michael O’Grady KC said McGowan had committed a “crime of staggering cruelty and depravity, a crime of utter wickedness”.
The parents of Miss Inglis, also 28 and a mother-of-one, have demanded to know why McGowan was bailed to live with their daughter and grandson at her flat in Stirling.