In January 1985, the bodies of three soldiers were found in the Pentland Hills in Scotland. At first, it was thought that they were victims of an IRA terrorist attack, but evidence suggested that it was an inside job and that another soldier was responsible. In a recent interview with BBC Scotland News, Tom Walker, who was a police inspector at the time and one of the first on the scene, recalled the events of the so-called Glencorse Massacre.
The men had been discovered beside a small derelict house at Loganlea reservoir, south of Edinburgh. Staff Sgt Terrance Hosker, Pte John Thomson, and retired Major David Cunningham were all killed in the attack. Andrew Walker, a long-serving corporal instructor from The Royal Scots, was the one responsible for their deaths.
Walker had been deep in debt and knew that junior soldiers training at Glencorse Barracks got paid in cash on Thursdays. He stole a submachine gun from the armoury, flagged down a Land Rover containing the payroll crew, and asked for a lift back to the barracks. He had planned to shoot all three of them in the Pentland Hills, but as he hijacked them at gunpoint, there was a scuffle in the back of the vehicle, and Staff Sgt Hosker was shot.
Walker then killed Maj Cunningham and forced Pte
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