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Glasgow murders 'not connected' | |
(about 2 hours later) | |
The "brutal" murders of two women in Glasgow within 24 hours are not connected, detectives have said. | |
The partially-clothed body of Moira Jones, 40, was discovered in Queen's Park on Thursday morning. | |
On Friday morning, trainee manager Eleni Pachou, 25, was found stabbed to death in a restaurant kitchen. | |
Police said they were looking at known sex offenders in the Queen's Park area. They said robbery was a possible motive for Ms Pachou's murder. | |
Senior officers said it was clear the murders were carried out by different people, because they involved different methods and motives. | |
Ms Pachou, who was originally from Greece, met an "horrific" death, police said. | |
Detectives believe she was involved in a violent struggle in Di Maggio's restaurant, in Ruthven Lane in the city's west end, as the premises closed late on Thursday. | |
There is no connection between those inquiries Det Supt Ruaraidh NicolsonStrathclyde Police Police revealed the restaurant's takings were missing. | |
Ms Pachou's body was found by a cleaner at about 0820 BST on Friday. | |
Police want to trace an individual she spoke to on the phone, a short time before she was attacked. | |
Det Ch Insp Michael Feighan said: "We established that before midnight she received a phone call at the restaurant which was overheard by other members of staff. | |
"She had arranged to meet a person and we would ask the person who made that call to contact us as a matter of urgency." | |
Officers investigating Moira Jones' murder said she had been visiting friends on Wednesday night, then drove home and parked her car. | |
Out of character | |
But they said her apparent decision to go into Queen's Park that night was completely out of character. | |
They want to know why that happened. | |
It has not yet been revealed how the businesswoman met her death but police said it was a "brutal and violent attack". | |
Her body was found by a park ranger at about 0945 BST on Thursday. | |
Det Supt Ruaraidh Nicolson, from Strathclyde Police, said 198 officers were working on both cases. | |
"There is no connection between those inquiries," he said. | |
"As part of the overall investigation so far we have carried out painstaking forensic examinations and that has taken quite some time." | |
He said inquiries were ongoing to establish the last movements of the two women. |