Police seek three men in mystery canal death probe

Police are urging three men to contact them in connection with the mystery death of a man found in a canal.

John Connelly’s body was pulled from the water at Speirs Wharf, Glasgow, on Monday July 22 last year. His family had reported the 28-year-old missing a week earlier when he failed to return to his home in the nearby Milton area from a day out with a friend in the city centre.

Police believe Mr Connelly may have been assaulted at or near an underpass in Garscube Road leading to Speirs Wharf, which left him with injuries to his head and body.

CCTV shows he was in the underpass in the city’s Cowcaddens area at around 10.20pm on Monday July 15.

Officers have discovered three men were near the location at around 10.25pm that night and are appealing to them to get in touch as they may have “vital information”.

The men are white, aged between 30 and 45 and have Scottish accents. They were wearing jeans and sports clothing.

In a re-appeal for information around six months on from Mr Connelly’s death, which officers are treating as “unexplained”, police said not knowing what happened is causing his family “added anguish and sorrow”.

Detective Inspector John Morrison said: “I am appealing to these three men to contact us, they may think they don’t know anything but I am asking them to let us be the judge of that.

“A small piece of information, which may seem insignificant, could be vital to us as we build up a picture of what has happened.”