A hero cop who helped catch Carstairs killers Robert Mone and Thomas McCulloch has backed a campaign for a bravery medal for the police officer they murdered. Malcolm Brough and two colleagues – Andrew Gardner and Irving Lyon – were presented with The Queen’s Gallantry Medal at Buckingham Palace 45 years ago.
But the family of the Scottish police officer murdered – Constable George Taylor – are still waiting for recognition. They have been repeatedly refused a posthumous award by the UK Government, which says their claim is time-barred.
George, 27, was slain by psychiatric patients Mone and McCulloch in November 1976. He had just begun his shift at 6pm, unaware they had broken out of the nearby State Hospital at Carstairs, having murdered a nurse and another patient.
