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,
Babes in the Wood murders (Wild Park) clear that the forensic samples taken as "tapings" in 1986 had been so carefully handled by the police and so well preserved by scientists that Altman could present them as a "time capsule" that proved Bishop's guilt. On December 10, 2018, after a nine-week trial at the Central Criminal Court — better known as the Old Bailey — with a jury of seven men and five women, they returned a guilty verdict after two-and-a-half hours of deliberation. Babes in the Wood murders (Wild Park) The Babes in the Wood Murders were the murders of two 9-year-old girls, Nicola Fellows and