A grieving family say their loved one is finally "at peace" after they paid thousands to have him exhumed when they made the horrifying discovery that he was buried next to a notorious child killer. The devastated family said there was no way they were going to leave their loved one where he was buried after finding out child murderer Sam Glass was in the grave next door.
Glass was jailed for longer than anyone else in Scotland after he indecently assaulted, stabbed and strangled a girl aged five in the 1960s. After he died in a secure hospital at the age of 71 in November 2018, he was buried in an unmarked grave near The State Hospital, Carstairs.
The killer's grave went unnoticed for more than a year, the Daily Record reports - until a local family noticed a headstone bearing Glass's adopted name of John Frederick Faucet had appeared next to their loved one's grave at Carnwath cemetery. The determined family then embarked on a three-year battle to get their loved one exhumed and reburied in a different spot in the same graveyard.
