How boy, 4, helped solve sick ‘Girl in the River’ murder of Caroline Clachan who was betrayed in sinister love triangle
How boy, 4, helped solve sick ‘Girl in the River’ murder of Caroline Clachan who was betrayed in sinister love triangle
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CAROLINE Glachan was the schoolgirl who never came home - instead, her violently assaulted body was found face down in the river. Her murder remained unsolved for almost 30 years and became one of Scotland’s most haunting cold cases. But 27 years on from her shocking death, three people stood accused of her murder in the Scottish High Court in Glasgow.
![[Photo of Caroline Glachan.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/NINTCHDBPICT000967541027.jpg?strip=all&w=662)
And with cameras allowed into the country’s courts, a gripping documentary - Murder Trial: Girl in the River - followed every twist and turn of the shocking revelations unfolding at the trial of the accused, Robert O’Brien, Andrew Kelly and Donna Marie Brand, as Caroline’s heartbroken family prayed for one last chance of justice.
![[Robert O'Brien at his murder trial.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/NINTCHDBPICT000967541075.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
And the evidence of a four-year-old boy who was present as Caroline met her grisly end would prove crucial. It was August 25, 1996, when 14-year-old Caroline was brutally killed and dumped in the River Leven, Dumbartonshire. The original police investigation was hampered by an unwillingness to cooperate with the police and only reopened in 2019.
![[Two defendants in a murder trial.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/NINTCHDBPICT000967541065_6051d0.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Throughout that time, Caroline’s heartbroken mother, Margaret McKeich, kept fighting for the truth about who murdered her only child. “Hope. Hope is the only thing that I have got, and I hope that I get some kind of justice for Caroline,” says Margaret.
![[Photo of Caroline Glachan.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/police-scotland-pa-wire-note-872090279.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
“It’s going to be a hard trial, it’s going to be hard to hear and see things, but I’m going to be there because I feel, as Caroline’s mother, I’ve got to be there. "I’ve waited long enough for it. I just thought that this was a day that would never come.”.
![[Margaret McKeich at a murder trial.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/NINTCHDBPICT000967540999.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
