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CUMNOCK, Scotland — Police have launched a murder inquiry following the death of a gay man who was found brutally beaten, burned and left by the side of a road in Ayrshire, Scotland on Saturday.
Stuart Walker
The charred remains of Stuart Walker, 28, the former assistant manager at the Royal Hotel in Cumnock, were discovered in the early hours on October 22. Police detectives were not ruling out the possibility that Walker’s death was the result of a anti-gay attack.
A spokeswoman for the Ayshire Constabulary confirmed that Walker’s body had scorch marks, adding that Walker had not “died from his burns” and that he had suffered terrible injuries in what she described as “a horrific attack.”
“In terms of claims of his sexuality and lifestyle we are not ruling out any aspect of his life to try and identify why someone would want to kill him,” the spokeswoman said.
Streets in the nearby Caponacre Industrial area were sealed off as part of the ongoing investigation. The spokeswoman noted that “his body was scorched but it is believed that this was not the cause of his death. We are looking at CCTV and conducting door to door inquiries in an attempt to piece together Walker’s final hours,” she added.
Det Insp Hogg said Mr Walker was last seen alive about two hours before he was killed.
“The facts that we have confirmed at this time is that Stuart had been out with friends in the Cumnock area from Friday night into early Saturday morning and was last seen alive by a family friend near to the fire station in Glaisnock Street around 02:30 hours on Saturday morning,” he said.
“We are still trying to establish where he was between 02:30 and 04:50 hours and who he was with. Officers from the inquiry team are still carrying out extensive inquiries in the local area and studying CCTV footage in an effort to gather further information that will assist their inquiries.
Hogg would not provide specific details on the cause of death, only that Walker was found lying on the roadside and that it was “an extremely violent crime.”
The Scotsman newspaper wrote about the incident saying:
Walker, a popular and former Cumnock Academy pupil, is now the subject of countless heartfelt tributes on a Facebook page set up in his honor.
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This is why facebook needs a dislike button…
SO? HOPE POLICE WILL FIND THAT “”HEROES”"…
Damn thats fucked up. I hope they find the basard(s) who did it
I like cuz I don’t like it…This world sucks… =/ Hope they catch whoever did this
:-(
How very sad,what a loss of beautiful life God created.
this is just really sad…..people just don`t fucking understand that gay people are also human being just like all straight people… seriously people grow the fuck up and start respecting other people… doesn`t mean if you are gay then it means you`re a sin to this world… fckn homophobics :/
i still dont understand this about humanity but as a non violent person how can i. hatred is something though i have never understood . I just dont understand how a human being can do this to another human , feel no regret , guilt , this saddens and disturbs, and dsigusts me .
truly said.. !! so fckn sad how could this person do something like this because of he`s sexuality seriously people don`t have any fucking respect for people for their genders…
If THis ISNT A HATE CRIME WHAT THE FUCK IS ! If anyone believes the world has comes to grip with Homophobia than they are sadly mistaken …..
Thumbs down.
This is really sad! I feel ill reading this! Sometimes I hate our world!
Rest in peace, gentle goon soul.
What is this continuous theme of burning the gay man’s body and leaving it at he side of the road? And then denying it? It’s not like this take just a few minutes to pull off.
Burning gay men is a long held tradition of the christian churches. there has been an increase in anti gay violence in Scotland occurring while the Catholic church in particular has been upping the ante in the argument against same sex marriage. Make no mistake this is another faith based crime, calling it a hate crime just provides an excuse for people with invisible friends to keep peddling ignorance and hate in the name of religion.
Disgusting, the church is one big hypocritical tyrant
damn… it hurts to read things like this… :(
WHEN WILL THIS SHIT EVER STOP !
Deep loss……it takes a Very Hard and deadened heart to feel alive only when torturing someone else….No one should Ever be harmed for Loving another human being PERIOD!
it´s a shame that happened in UK,nowadays.disgusting
That is not GOOD
How many more lgbt lives being treated as trash?