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00:00Glansgow was an epicenter of sex work.
00:07It had a challenging approach for women engaging in sex work.
00:13The majority of women were drug users and were working primarily to feed that drug use.
00:20There weren't many options in those days.
00:22A number of those women, particularly in the 90s, were talking about the series of murders that happened there.
00:31The fear that was very much alive amongst women in Glasgow, knowing that they didn't feel protected,
00:38that they didn't feel valued, that they didn't feel as though they were viewed as human beings even.
00:44I don't think we can underestimate the fear that women had around, what if it's me next?
00:53They all concluded that there were people out there who were trying to kill them off.
00:59In the 1990s, particularly by the late 1990s, there was an area in the city centre which was colloquially referred to by the public and by the police as the drag.
01:24That was the area where the majority of the street prostitution in Glasgow was undertaken.
01:31In the 90s, Glasgow's red light district was very visible.
01:36It was very brightly lit.
01:37But the women would take men to darker, more secret places to do the business, which was obviously more dangerous.
01:49A favourite place was Habitat, which I've always thought was a bit ironic.
01:54You know, this stylish place and in the morning it would be littered with condoms and things.
02:01The Strathclyde police over the period of the 1990s had a number of incidents where sex workers had been attacked and on a number of occasions there had been a murder committed.
02:13Sex working on the street was recognised by the police and by the women themselves as a high risk occupation.
02:23Right about six o'clock on the Saturday evening, 28th of February 1998, Margo's body was discovered by a passerby.
02:41It was immediately obvious that she was dead and that she had been the victim of an attack.
02:52She was not in her clothes.
02:55The police were contacted.
02:57The senior detectives on call were called out from home and by Saturday evening a full incident would be in place.
03:04The lane here was shut off and an inner crime scene was established at the pen where Margo's body was.
03:1627-year-old Margo Lafferty was the seventh sex worker to be killed in as many years.
03:22The murders of six other workers, Diane McAnally, Karen McGregor, Leona McGovern, Marjorie Roberts, Jackie Gallagher and Tracy Wilde, were unsolved at the time so police needed to act quickly.
03:43I'd been covering the previous six murders, pulling the whole thing together to try and make sense of it.
03:49And before it went to press, Margo was murdered and I was very, very shocked by that.
04:00So it proved how little women's lives were valued, that yet another woman could be murdered.
04:09It did feel that the police weren't tackling the right things.
04:13You know, they were arresting women for soliciting, but they weren't really chasing up the people who were assaulting them and murdering them.
04:24Well, I think everybody knew Margo because she was so feisty.
04:35She came from quite a poor background.
04:39She came from Bar Mulloch, which was one of the many housing schemes in Glasgow, which at that time were riddled with drugs.
04:46Her father died when she was four, so her older brother stepped in and tried to earn money for the family.
04:57She was always a very bright wee girl from the very beginning, full of energy, full of kind of sass, if you like.
05:05She used to get free ice creams off the ice cream van and things like that.
05:12As she became a teenager, she got into glue sniffing.
05:17That's obviously a path to stronger drugs.
05:21She was drawn into heroin and drug addiction.
05:25She held her job down for a while at Glen Eagles Hotel.
05:33She was quite a conjunction of class.
05:39She was sacked from the hotel and after that she ended up working on the streets.
05:46The murder of Margo Lafferty presented significant challenges to the investigation team, which were similar in some respects to the murders that had gone before.
06:01Working as a street worker takes you into a dangerous world.
06:04And in particular, the circumstances that Margo found herself in, where she meets a client insofar as we're aware she'd never had contact with before.
06:15She knew none of the backstory about him, what his personality was like.
06:20She goes off on foot with him and comes in to West Regent Lane and then into a pen off the lane in almost the pitch dark at the early hours of a Saturday morning.
06:31And a violent fight ensues.
06:37When Margo was found in the pen, it was immediately obvious that there had been a very strong fight for her life.
06:46Margo was naked.
06:48Her clothing was strewn about.
06:50She had significant injuries to her head and face.
06:54She also had defence wounds.
06:56It was subsequently confirmed that it was blunt force trauma and strangulation that had taken her life.
07:04Homicides, and in particular homicides of street workers, more often than not there is only the perpetrator and the victim there.
07:13And that's one of the major, major challenges.
07:16And more and more, the answers are being provided by forensics.
07:32The day after Margo's body was found, police launched a major investigation, one that they immediately knew was going to be challenging.
07:40Murders involving sex workers have been historically particularly difficult to resolve.
07:51And it's a complex situation as to why that would be.
07:54For the group of sex workers, they may not consider it in their interests to come forward and be entirely open with the police about who was coming to them to use their services, what difficulties were they facing with what they would sometimes refer to as difficult punters.
08:10Also on the other side, the customers, they are not a group of people who would see it in their interests to put their hand up and say yes, I'm one of the ones who uses sex workers' services and this is who I meet and this is what happens when I'm with them.
08:30Behind them lies a family and relationships and it's not something they want to go public with.
08:36That manifests itself when you're then pursuing a forensic case and you're looking for DNA samples to eliminate people from the inquiry and ultimately to find the individual concerned.
08:49At this time, sex worker rights advocate Ruth Morgan Thomas was co-running a drop-in centre for sex workers 50 miles away in Edinburgh, where the difference in experience was stark.
09:01When we started our drop-in centre for street women in Edinburgh, we had women coming from Glasgow because it was safer.
09:13Edinburgh was very fortunate in having what's called a toleration zone where women who worked on the streets were allowed to congregate and solicit collectively so that they could watch one another's backs.
09:25Glasgow did not have a toleration. There were individual police officers who women did trust because they had experience of working with them. But the women from Glasgow who spoke to us had no trust in the police. That's why they were in Edinburgh.
09:43There's no doubt in my mind that the lack of attention and care was driven by misogyny actually, but particularly what I call whore phobia. This bit about that sex workers are not valued in our society and they don't have any worth.
10:01Most of the women wouldn't even think about reporting, even though they knew that crimes had been committed.
10:08If one woman goes up to a police officer to report a rape and is told by that officer that rape is part of your job when we know it's not, there is consent in sex work.
10:18You don't hide that. You tell all of the women that you work with and nobody will then go and report. And I think that that was part of the issue that the community, even new women coming in, would be told that.
10:36David Leach was pulled into the Margot Lafferty case as at the time he was working on another murder investigation involving a sex worker.
10:44We were three months into the investigation of the murder of Tracy Wilde, another street worker.
10:50And so when Margot Lafferty's body had been discovered at the weekend, I was made aware on the Monday morning and the senior CID management team directed that I would go to Stuart Street, which is where the incident room for Margot Lafferty had been set up.
11:05Troll of the CCTV is time critical because a lot of CCTV systems will only record for a certain time and then they'll start overwriting.
11:15So it's always a priority for a senior investigating officer to secure the CCTV.
11:20Priority was given to the area of the drag where Margot had last been seen. And by looking at the CCTV, they identified positively Margot.
11:37She was with an individual at round about 2.30 in the morning and she walked off camera. The individual wasn't identifiable, but Margot was positively identified.
11:49Margot's murder had deeply shocked the sex worker community in Glasgow.
11:54I don't think we can underestimate the fear that women had around, what if it's me next?
12:04I mean, there was a lot of discussion about, was it a serial murder? Whether or not it was a serial murder, they all concluded that there were people out there who were trying to kill them off.
12:14It is an incredible thing not to recognize and try and protect vulnerable women from.
12:21They were absolutely terrified, but it didn't make any difference. That was what they did. That was how they made money. And they just carried on.
12:36People who are addicted put less value on their own lives than other people do.
12:43It made me just so, so sad for the women. They thought they could be next.
12:49That was in their minds all the time. This could happen to anyone.
13:01In the early stages of the inquiry, there was a lot of speculation in the media about there being a serial killer who was out there targeting sex workers.
13:11Nobody knew who it was that was perpetrating these crimes of gross, gross violence.
13:25Nobody knew whether it was a serial killer or lots of individual men. Which was most frightening was one of the conversations.
13:32Because there were people who said, well, if it's a serial killer, he's got a type.
13:36And I'm not that type. If it's different men, then there's all these different men who are out to try and kill us.
13:42It was terrifying. And yet the need to earn a livelihood to make money remained.
13:52And nobody took that into account. None of us have a choice about needing money to live, to pay the rent, to buy the food, to put on the table for our kids.
14:01There aren't alternatives there. And yet you're still faced with the choices of going out into that environment.
14:13While the media speculated, the police began looking at what sort of evidence they could gather from the scene of the crime.
14:20The crime scene itself was really complicated for the forensic team.
14:27This was February. Margot had been there for more than 12 hours by this time.
14:34All of that, along with the fact that it was wet, dirt, mud, makes it very, very difficult to recover forensic material.
14:45But nonetheless, they did recover condoms and items of clothing.
14:51And on Margot's crop top, they found a key piece of evidence, a very small spot of blood.
15:03Margot had clearly put up a strong fight for her life.
15:07She'd sustained significant injuries, but she'd also sustained significant defence wounds.
15:13And it was quite clear, and the pathologist confirmed, that it was highly likely that whoever had killed Margot had themselves suffered significant injuries.
15:23That knowledge gave the police an idea. If Margot had fought her attacker, she might have traces of their DNA on a particular area of her body.
15:32Looking at fingernail scrapings, we would expect to see things like fibres as well as possibly skin cells on your fingers and under your fingernails as well.
15:45When we would take a sample, we would then effectively mount it onto a microscope slide and look more closely under the microscope to see if there was any debris.
15:55I mean, it could be some weird and wonderful things under fingernails.
15:58That place where she died, it was horrible. You know, it was waste ground. It was muddy. There was trees sprouting out the building. And he dragged her across it, you know. And she was very feisty. She fought back.
16:22Despite having obviously fought her assailant, no DNA profile could be obtained from the scrapings taken from Margot's fingernails.
16:35Usually, if you swab something or you put it in for DNA profiling, yes, you can get a no profile. It doesn't mean there wasn't anything there in the first place.
16:43So what you've swabbed from under that fingernail, it may have a tiny bit of blood, it may have other things there, but there could be something that's stopping us getting a DNA profile.
16:54It's not that there was nothing there in the first place.
16:57The muddy location where Margot's body was found was almost certainly a contributing factor in that complete lack of DNA.
17:04We rely on a very fine balance of any fine recipe to be able to copy the bits of DNA that we're interested in.
17:13And soil in particular is very problematic if it's mixed with the source that you're looking for.
17:19Certainly in cases that I've worked when I've had invisible blood stain on a knife, which was also contaminated with soil.
17:25And we tried so many times to get a DNA profile from it, and we just could not.
17:31And we were pretty sure it was because of the soil contamination.
17:37Even if blood had been transferred to our fingernails from his wounds, if it then had been soil contamination, then that could stop a DNA profile being obtained.
17:48Fortunately, though, it wasn't just Margot's fingernails that were identified as a source for evidence.
17:54The crime scene was quite rich in forensic terms.
17:59They had recovered five condoms, each of which produced a positive DNA profile.
18:07Two of the condoms gave the same DNA profile.
18:12There was also a small spot of blood recovered from Margot's top that she'd been wearing.
18:19That was highly significant for two reasons.
18:22One was the nature and size of the spot, because that's about blood distribution, and it's associated to a fast ejection of blood.
18:33But the second and key thing was that the DNA profile for that blood matched that from the two condoms.
18:40So now that became key.
18:43When you're made aware that you have a DNA profile for comparison, it was then checked against the National DNA database.
18:53Unfortunately, at that point, the key profile, that from the two condoms and the blood spot on Margot's crop top, that remained unidentified.
19:03In order to match the samples found in the condoms and on Margot's top to an individual, the police would need to narrow down their suspects with a new approach.
19:16When the post-mortem one, Margot Lafferty, was undertaken, the pathologist was quite clear with us that this had, in fact, been a very violent struggle.
19:26Margot had a number of defence wounds, and it was the assessment of the pathologist that the person responsible would have sustained injuries.
19:34And there was a good chance that those injuries could be to the face or head area.
19:42Margot's feisty nature, coupled with the defensive wounds, suggested she had fought back against her attacker, meaning that attacker could be nursing injuries.
19:53That information was not in the public domain.
19:56Given the forensic opportunities that would diminish quite quickly, if that individual's out there and has suffered facial injuries, in my view, it was absolutely the right thing that they went public with it.
20:08And ultimately, that's what reaped the reward, because it did engender a public response.
20:14And one of the calls was in relation to an individual by the name of Brian Donnelly.
20:26Two months on from Margot Lafferty's murder, police believed they might have identified a suspect.
20:37Brian Donnelly was an ostensibly very respectable young man.
20:43He was 19 years old. He had a job.
20:47It was Brian Donnelly's birthday the night Margot was murdered.
20:51And he'd gone out with colleagues to the bowling alley down on the quay side in Glasgow.
20:57And he'd had some kind of rejection from one of his female colleagues.
21:04He'd tried to get off with her and she'd knocked him back.
21:09The police had a tip off from one of Brian Donnelly's colleagues.
21:14He'd turned up at work with scratches on his face.
21:19Brian Donnelly, over the course of his interviews, his initial position was that he'd left the party at Kingston and he'd got a taxi home.
21:34And he'd been involved in a dispute in the taxi rank.
21:38One of the key things that the street workers said was that they didn't think there was any way that Margot Lafferty would have gone away and certainly gone into a pen with somebody who's got significant fresh facial injuries.
21:53That's a red flag for any of the street workers. Somebody who's clearly just been in a fight. You're not going to go anywhere with them.
22:00So the assessment was these facial injuries didn't predate his physically coming into contact with Margot.
22:08At this stage of the questioning, however, Donnelly was denying having ever met Margot Lafferty.
22:15He did, though, agree to give the police a sample of his DNA.
22:19Back in 1998, we were using a fairly advanced DNA technology.
22:28It advanced from 1995 when the national DNA database was introduced.
22:32We were targeting then six areas of DNA to copy and also an area to determine whether the sample was male or female.
22:41By 1998, we'd expanded that to ten areas of DNA, plus the sex determiner, which was fairly sophisticated and very accurate way of obtaining a DNA profile
22:53and from a much smaller sample than we would have got, for instance, about ten years before.
23:00We were pretty much using very similar extraction techniques as we do now.
23:06The DNA technology has moved on, but the way we actually prepare the samples, extract those samples is really quite similar.
23:17Back in the 1990s, I would say, our technology was pretty good.
23:22We were getting results from really small samples.
23:26Once a DNA sample had been taken from Donnelly, it could be compared to the samples discovered at the crime scene.
23:33In Margo's case, the forensic evidence found at the scene included two condoms, which had semen inside,
23:42and a spot of blood found on Margo's clothing, which she wasn't wearing at the time, which was found around beside her.
23:52When we have a blood stain on an item of clothing, then we would just cut out a piece of that fabric that is blood stained,
24:01put that into a tube, and then it starts the DNA process by chemicals being added to extract the DNA out of the blood.
24:10We then clean that chemically, and then we start to target the bits of DNA that we're interested in for the DNA profile.
24:19They get copied, and then they are separated out so that we can do the analysis as to the size of the pieces of DNA that we're interested in to give them a type to be able to produce the DNA profile.
24:32So the pieces of DNA that we're interested in are called short tandem repeats.
24:40So there are small pieces of DNA next to each other, and they repeat themselves.
24:45We know that from person to person you can have different short tandem repeats at certain pieces of the DNA.
24:52So we target those, we measure them, and from measuring them we can actually see how many repeats are there.
24:59And then we can say, right, this person has two repeats, this person has four repeats, and so on.
25:04And then we can just build the DNA profile from there as a numerical code.
25:08So therefore we would actually look at the profile of Brian Donnelly.
25:14Effectively you're looking at a set of numbers matching a second set of numbers.
25:20So if the DNA profile from the blood and the semen had the same characteristics, the same types as Brian Donnelly, then it would be declared as a match.
25:31It's strong evidence that DNA matching Brian Donnelly was there at that crime scene.
25:41And the result came back very quickly.
25:44It's his DNA in the two condoms, and it's his DNA in the spot of blood.
25:54When he was confronted at the second interview with the fact that his DNA was in the condoms,
26:01he then changed his story to say that, yes, he'd gone to get a taxi, but in actual fact he'd gone,
26:08I think he called it window shopping, to look at the street workers, and had then subsequently gone with one of the street workers.
26:16And he then confirmed that that was Margot Lafferty, but maintained that they had parted on good terms and that no disturbance had taken place.
26:31Brian Donnelly was arrested and taken into custody.
26:39And he was placed before Glasgow Sheriff Court on the 11th of May 1998, where he was remanded in custody for trial at Glasgow High Court.
26:48When Margot's killer was identified and arrested, I think that gave a signal to the women who were working on the streets that there was a change.
27:01Not exactly relief, but there was a change.
27:06While Glasgow had previously not attended to these, the pressure on them from the rest of the country who were horrified at seven murders in less than a decade.
27:19Really, I think the women felt, yes, there will be change now.
27:24I think the women would be very relieved that somebody had been caught, somebody was going to be held to account for this.
27:37I think they would probably have felt a wee bit safer on the street that night.
27:43Confident they'd got their man, police took steps to see if Donnelly might be responsible for more than just Margot's murder.
27:51The DNA profile, which turned out to be Brian Donnelly's DNA profile, was run against Tracy Wilde and the other outstanding inquiries at that time.
28:05And there was no, there was no match. It was a different individual.
28:09With six other sex worker murders remaining unsolved at the time, police were determined to build a strong case against Donnelly.
28:17When I was a young detective, my senior investigating officer in those days told me that the difference between an investigator and a detective was an investigator gets a sufficiency of evidence and reports the matter.
28:32The detective keeps going and investigates the potential lines of defense to either corroborate or close them down.
28:42No case is ever what somebody would describe as bulletproof. It's only right. You identify potential other lines of inquiry.
28:50Because at the end of the day, you're investigating to exonerate just as much as you're investigating to implicate.
28:58It was rather unusual in this case that the senior investigating officer got details of the taxi drivers from the Taxi Owners Association.
29:05And took the step of not just liaising with taxi drivers, but he actually wrote out to every taxi driver asking them to come forward if they could recall such a fear.
29:18And that was clearly done in order to try and either confirm or deny Brian Donnelly's story about the fight at Central Station.
29:27Nobody came forward.
29:30Unable to corroborate Donnelly's account, the police honed in on what evidence was left at the scene and crucially what was missing.
29:40During the examination of the compound where Margot's body was found, the police recovered not only the crop top that had the small spot of blood on it, but they recovered trousers and footwear.
29:54But the thing that was missing was her dark jacket.
30:00You could see on the CCTV that she was wearing a dark jacket when she was last seen on screen.
30:06And it was certainly missing from the compound.
30:09But I think if I had been involved in a very physical struggle and fight, which involved blood staining and injuries, if I myself didn't have a jacket,
30:22I would probably put that jacket on to cover myself up because otherwise when I come back out into the public domain, people are going to notice that I'm either covered with mud or blood.
30:32So I subscribe more to the view that the jacket was taken to conceal evidence from public view as opposed to stealing the jacket.
30:44With the trial looming, police would need every bit of additional evidence they could gather because they knew that Donnelly's wasn't the only DNA found at the crime scene.
30:53Eight months after her body was discovered, the trial into the murder of Margot Lafferty commenced.
31:07Brian Donnelly pleaded not guilty and in October 1998, the case went to trial.
31:21He was very sullen standing there in the dock.
31:28He was aggrieved looking as though he shouldn't be there.
31:34That's the impression I got from him.
31:39At the trial, Donnelly's father said that he had had a lot of money.
31:44It was his 19th birthday and he went out with other people from his work and ended up the evening with a fistful of money.
31:56He told colleagues and friends that it was either an assault by somebody, it was a cat, it was a fight in the bowling place they'd been to that night.
32:08What he actually said in court was that it had been the fight at the taxi rank.
32:17Some of the sex workers gave evidence about Margot's background, about her sort of tenacious character, the fact that she would put up a good fight.
32:28Having produced evidence to suggest Margot was responsible for the scratches that had been identified on Brian Donnelly, the prosecution next moved on to the CCTV footage in the hope of further incriminating him.
32:42The footage I particularly remember is of a man who I believe was Brian Donnelly going from West Regent Lane up to Saucy Hall Street and they followed him.
33:01I don't know whether he was going for a bus or not, but he was moving very fast.
33:06That was quite striking because people at that time in the morning are generally ambling about.
33:13Faced with this evidence, Donnelly dramatically altered his story when he took the stand.
33:20Donnelly admitted in court that he'd had sex with Margot.
33:27He couldn't really deny it because there were two condoms with his DNA found at the murder scene.
33:36While the condoms found at the scene could be used to implicate Donnelly, the defence hoped to use them to try to exonerate him.
33:44They found five condoms in total at the scene.
33:49There was DNA recovered, well, five of the condoms, two provided DNA profiles, but they were not identified.
33:57But there was one identified on the DNA database as an individual from England.
34:05A man called David Payne, who was a violent sex offender and had been convicted and I think spent seven years in jail for it.
34:16Brian Donnelly's defence lodged a special defence of incrimination, saying that it was David Payne who was the individual that was responsible.
34:27So the fact that David Payne's DNA was recovered from what could be considered to be the crime scene, they hoped would be enough to introduce a reasonable doubt into the mind of the jury.
34:37So he was very quickly tracked down. David Payne was open with the inquiry about his background.
34:48He was quite open with the fact that he had used the services of sex workers and that in fact they had had sex in that pound with a sex worker, but not Margot.
34:57There's no evidence to actually implicate him directly with any contact with Margot.
35:06And it was extremely unlikely that the level of violence that had been meted out to Margot and the defence wounds that she had, that the perpetrator would not have borne some physical sign of injury.
35:19He had not a mark on him. He had absolutely no physical injuries that would fit with the issue.
35:29I think that the jury gave due consideration to the special defence that Brian's legal team had put in, but I don't think they were swayed by it.
35:43Brian Donnelly was found guilty of Margot Lafferty's murder and he was sentenced to life in prison.
35:53However, that wasn't the end of the story.
36:01After the trial at the High Court, the jury convicted Brian Donnelly by a majority verdict.
36:08But following that, there was an appeal put in by Brian Donnelly's defence and that was based on his lordship's direction to the jury, in which he'd made reference to the other CCTV footage of the male wearing the dark jacket, leaving the vicinity some 45 minutes after Margot had last been seen.
36:33His defence team queried an instruction the judge had given to the jury.
36:40The judge had told them that the CCTV footage, they could take it, that that was Brian Donnelly.
36:47And I have to confess, at the time, I looked at it and I thought, I am absolutely positive it's Brian Donnelly, but I don't think that you can swear that the CCTV image is good enough to say that.
37:04So, the defence team appealed and there was a retrial.
37:11The fact that there had been a relatively quick resolution, a relatively quick move to trial and a conviction, all of that was good news, good news.
37:22And it was almost like the rug being pulled in the public perception.
37:27It was like, oh no, you know, it was all going so smoothly.
37:31Either when there is a not proven given, or a not guilty given, or a conviction is quashed, it will always cause the senior investigating officer and the inquiry team to look inwards to say,
37:53is there something that we could have done that we didn't do, or is there something that we missed?
38:01In Margo's case, it wasn't a question around the evidence.
38:05It wasn't a question around what the police had done.
38:09It was down to a direction or, in the view of the appeal judges, a misdirection from the bench.
38:16And there's always those butterflies in your stomach about, have we got enough?
38:20Will a jury be persuaded? It'll be another jury.
38:24So, when the retrial happened, in fairly quick terms, and it was a unanimous verdict, it's more of a sigh of relief for the inquiry team and for the family.
38:36This fresh jury, convicted Brian Dornley again, and he was handed down a life sentence.
38:42At the point of conviction for Margo Lafferty's murder, the only unresolved sex worker murder was Tracy Wilde.
38:55In relation to the others, people had been identified, they had been reported.
39:01Some had gone to trial and been found not guilty.
39:04Others, there had been a position taken by the Crown that there was an insufficiency to move to trial.
39:11But in terms of an investigating viewpoint, that was a frustration that we just had to keep going.
39:19I think what happened to Margo and the other women really showed up.
39:29The lack of care for these women and a kind of skewed attitude to them.
39:36These women were not just what they did. They were great personalities, many of them, and their families have to live with the fact that people have not been brought to justice.
39:51Society stigmatises sex workers, who at the end of the day are girls or women, many of them with young families.
40:05There's a person behind that's a public facade of the sex worker.
40:10While society's attitudes have changed over the years, they've not changed so much.
40:17It's tragic that that's the case.
40:19Whilst over the course of the 1990s, a number of street workers were sadly killed.
40:30I think that the death of Tracy Wilde in November 1997, followed very quickly three months later by Margo Lafferty in February 1998.
40:39I think that brought into far greater prominence the issue of the lack of knowledge and understanding between the police and the girls that were working on the street.
40:52Glasgow since the 90s has been completely gentrified.
41:02A red light zone district doesn't actually exist. Women are dispersed into more isolated places.
41:09They can't solicit in busy public places. And that increases the vulnerability to violence, actually. Makes them less safe.
41:19I think that the police had to start listening because it was very clear to the rest of Scotland and the UK that somehow they were failing.
41:32I don't think there was another city that had that level of violence and murders being committed against sex workers without any action.
41:41We are, as a society, constantly learning from the sex workers in the UK and around the world who are brave enough to step up and speak out about the injustice of how they're treated in their settings.
41:59But I do know that the voices of sex workers are now loud and clear and will not be silenced, regardless of what laws and policies are put in place.
42:18Margo's mother, Madge, was so controlled, but she was beyond devastated by what had happened to her daughter.
42:28And I think that the thought of how she died and just the number of injuries, I think that was very, very difficult for her mother to deal with.
42:45Margo Lafferty, to some people, will be a name in a newspaper.
42:50It was a street worker who was sadly murdered in 1998, but Margo Lafferty was her mum's daughter.
42:59She was a sister to her six brothers and that's the thing that can be forgotten.
43:05If the public were to think one thing of Margo, that they weren't told, what would you want it to be?
43:11She was a loving, caring daughter. That's what she was.
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