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In May 2005, Edith McAlinden, John McAlinden and Jamie Gray appeared at
Glasgow High Court. All denied murdering Mitchell, Coyle, and Gillespie. During the trial, prosecutor Sean Murphy QC claimed that the victims had been "beaten with knives, metal files, a belt, and pieces of wood" and "hit with a
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for the murders. During the investigation, the police speculated McAlinden didn't act alone and that there were two or three strong men involved because, according to a police record during the trial, "there was so much blood in the flat that it was impossible to be precise about the details of the
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On 29 June 2005, Edith McAlinden was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum tariff of 13 years. John McAlinden and Jamie Gray were each given a minimum tariff of 12 years. It is known that John McAlinden was liberated in 2016, but was imprisoned again in 2018 for breaching the conditions of
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Two hours later, at approximately 3:00, McAlinden went to neighbour James
Sweeney's house and claimed something had happened at Ian Mitchell's flat. She begged him to check. Sweeney went to the flat and once he saw the state of the hallway, he phoned the emergency services on his mobile phone. He
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bottle, punched, stabbed and stamped on the head, and had boiling water poured over them". The defendants changed their pleas during the trial: John McAlinden admitted he killed
Mitchell, Jamie Gray admitted killing Coyle, and Edith McAlinden admitted killing Gillespie.
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later revealed to local reporters that walls and floors were covered with blood, which quickly earned the killings a nickname, "The House of Blood."
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