Evening Telegraph (First Edition)
‘Police have failed’
Brother of slain Dundonian to hire private investigator
John McMurchie, a former security guard and a dad-of-five, was on a night out to celebrate his birthday with friends and wife, Donna, in Fintry when tragedy struck.
John was found lying on the street by two members of the public in Fintry Drive, near its junction with Whitfield Drive, with a stab wound to the heart.
He later died in Ninewells Hospital. At the time, police arrested a man in his sixties in connection with the murder investigation, but after two days, he was released without charge.
John’s killer has never been caught, despite police taking nearly 1,000 witness statements.
Now, John’s brother Bruce, 59, from Lochee, is set to hire a private investigator in a bid to discover the truth about his sibling’s death.
He said: “I was really close to John — we were the closest.
“We are talking about a human life, we are talking about a whole family who haven’t had closure.
“How can someone get away with killing someone else?
“The police have failed — they have let us down. They let his killer get away — it is so frustrating.
“If I get a private i nvestigator involved, then they may get to the bottom of this.
“I keep saying to myself, I have to keep going — I have to get justice for John.”
Bruce said that he had been investigating the circumstances of his brother’s death since it happened.
He added: “Every time I go down to Bell Street, I ask the police if they know anything else and they always say that they don’t.
“I went around all the pubs, I spoke to all the taxi drivers — I won’t stop until I get the answers I need.
“I would ask anyone if they knew anything, but I just met a dead end.
“He drank in the Dolphin – my brother still goes there, but I can’t face it, because it just brings back everything.
“They still talk about him in Fintry, they still remember him.
“John was a good man and he was well liked.
“He didn’t deserve what happened to him.”
Bruce said his next step is to find an investigator to take on the case.
He said he is also trying to get John’s phone — which was taken as evidence at the time of his death — from investigating officers in the hope that it may provide insights into the investigation.
THE brother of a Dundee man slain in the street is set to hire a private investigator in a bid to bring his killer to justice.