History of Edinburgh the meantime the Old Town continued to decay into an increasingly dilapidated, overcrowded slum with high mortality rates, and was practically segregated socially from the rest of the city. This was especially true where the sub-division of tenements offered the cheapest lodgings in narrow alleyways that formed the backdrop to the infamous 'West Port Murders' of Burke and Hare. In 1865 Alexander Smith wrote of one of the poorest districts, The Cowgate is the Irish portion of the city. Edinburgh leaps over it with bridges: the inhabitants are morally and geographically the lower orders. They keep to their own quarters,
Malexander murders also sentenced for war-crimes, including torture of Muslim prisoners, which he had committed during the civil war in the ex-Yugoslavia as part of a Croatian paramilitary group. Olsson was confined to the Hall Prison. During the night between 27 and 28 July 2004, he escaped from his jail, but was captured 2 days later. Malexander murders The Malexander murders () were the murders of two police officers, Robert Karlström and Olov Borén, at Malexander, Sweden on 28 May 1999. The murders were committed after a bank robbery in Kisa earlier that day. Three men were convicted of the crimes, Tony