Child killer’s £40k legacy rejected by care charity Quarriers

A CHARITY has turned down a £40,000 legacy from child killer Sam Glass, Scotland’s longestserving prisoner.

Glass, jailed in 1967 after he indecently assaulted, stabbed and strangled a five-year-old girl, died in November 2018 at the age of 71.

He left his life savings, mostly accrued from benefits paid to him while in the State Hospital at Carstairs, Lanarkshire, plus his collection of 11 watches, to Quarriers, a social care group based in Renfrewshire.

He decreed his estate should help the organisation support the disabled, homeless and people with epilepsy, but the charity refused the cash.

A spokesman said: ‘We were offered this legacy donation. Our

£10million cost to detain him

review panel considered this and returned the donation.’

The money was instead disbursed among relatives with whom Glass had no contact.

Glass spent 49 years at the State Hospital for his attack on Jean Hamilton in a disused Glasgow railway tunnel in 1967.

He was transferred to the medium-security Rowanbank Clinic, beside Glasgow’s Stobhill Hospital, for his final few years. It cost more than £10million at today’s prices to detain him.

He received benefits throughout his life as he was classified as a patient. Documents 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, including his collection of 11 watches and a mobility reclining chair, were valued at a further £410. His total estate was £42,608.