When Govan born man Archibald Thomson Hall left prison, he was ready to reinvent himself - using his new alias to climb the social ladder, and eventually become one of Scotland’s most notorious serial killers.
After spending much of his teen years committing a series of thefts in London, he was arrested at the age of 17. On release in 1975, he changed his name to Roy Fontaine - inspired by Joan Fontaine, the star of the 1940 Alfred Hitchcock film Rebecca.
Under his new identity, he found work as a butler and mixed with the rich and famous of the time. Now able to get into the grandest houses around the country, ‘Roy’ mingled with the likes of composer Ivor Novello, Lord Mountbatten and playwright Terrence Rattigan.
