The Sunday Post (Inverness)

Charity refuses child killer’s £40,000 legacy

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showed there was £ 41,935 in his bank account when it was closed last year. He had a further £ 263 in cash when he died in his room in Rowanbank’s Cedar Ward in November 2018. Personal belongings, i ncluding a collection of 11 watches and a mobility reclining chair, were valued at a further £410. His total estate was £42,608.

The money, minus funeral expenses of about £ 1,500, was left to Quarriers but a spokeswoma­n said: “We were offered this legacy donation. Our review panel considered this and returned the donation.” The money was instead disbursed among family members with whom he’d had no contact.

Glass left his hi-fi, CDS, videos, clothes and TV to the Rowanbank clinic’s patients. His wristwatch was left to “any surviving family member currently unknown”.

He was moved out of Carstairs, where the cost of keeping a patient is £ 300,000 per year, in 2015 when it was deemed he no longer required maximum- security conditions. He had a past obsession with the Nazis, referring to himself as Hans Friedrich, and in the same year changed his name to John Frederick Faucet, an approximat­e translatio­n.

He died three years later aged 71 and is buried at a cemetery near Carstairs, which he had come to regard as his home.

At the time of his death, f rom bronchopne­umonia and heart disease, he had been detained longer than anyone else in Scotland.

A source said: “Glass was having a relationsh­ip with a male patient at the time of his death but was otherwise disliked for what he did to the little girl.

“He got more than £ 100 per week in

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