Former Edinburgh cop who cracked infamous ‘Shoe Man’ case speaks out about how he caught serial sex offender 35 years on
over 3 years in TheScotsman
PC Charles Hay was jailed for five years at the High Court in Edinburgh in 1986 after admitting 13 charges of attacks on women. One of the police officers who worked on what became known as the ‘Shoe Man’ case, Peter Richie, now a crime fiction writer, describes the series of events that led to his capture…