‘They said I killed her’: Best friend of Caroline Glachan reveals false accusations
The best friend of a murdered schoolgirl from Dunbartonshire says police failed in their investigation.
The best friend of a murdered schoolgirl from Dunbartonshire says police failed in their investigation as she reveals to Clyde News the police at the time accused her of the murder.
Caroline Glachan's killers have never been caught and this week marks the twentieth anniversary since her death as Clyde News launches our #JusticeForCaroline campaign.
Joanne Menzies was the last person to see the 14-year-old alive and believes the police have failed over the last twenty years as they still have not found who killed Caroline.
“It should be a number one priority. I think that got lost and the waters got muddied and everyone forgot about Caroline and that she was a 14-year-old child who had hopes and dreams like every other child in Scotland."
The mother of three said she lost confidence in the ability of the officers at the time to solve the case after they interogated her:
“(The police) were very harsh with me. I was with them for eight to ten hours a day, every day, giving statements upon statements. I mean I was telling them everything to the last detail until one day they locked the room and switched the phones off.
“They decided to lay into me and they decided I had killed her and I had climbed down a drain-pipe and followed her and killed her.
“I never had a motive. Luckily for me, I’d said to them the guy across in the other flat has a camera looking onto the close. You can see I’ve not left. “I would never have laid a finger on her. I lost a lot of faith in the police after that.”
You can listen to Joanne’s interview with our reporter Shiona McCallum here: