CCTV and forensics led police to Karen Buckley’s killer

Officers had to contend with a mountain of fabrications by a serial liar who meticulously planned getting away with murder. Joe Leogue reports from Glasgow

Nelson Mandela Place in Glasgow city centre sits at the end of a gradual slope that runs from the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall down the pedestrianised Buchanan St.

The area is the commercial heart of the city, where modern shopping malls have slotted in seamlessly with existing blond sandstone buildings that date back to the Victorian era.