Man wrongly convicted of 1952 Patricia Curran murder wrote to Harold Wilson in bid to clear name

Iain Hay Gordon after his conviction for the murder of Patricia Curran was quashed in 2000 (Paul Faith/PA)

A man wrongly convicted of one of Northern Ireland’s most notorious murders wrote directly to former UK prime minister Harold Wilson in 1969 appealing for his name to be cleared in the interests of “basic human justice”.

Iain Hay Gordon, from Glasgow, was found guilty but insane over the murder of judge’s daughter Patricia Curran in 1952.