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Greenock death: Jack Doyle is nephew of murder victim Elaine | |
(about 14 hours later) | |
A teenager who was murdered in Greenock earlier this week was the nephew of a woman who died in an unsolved murder in the town 25 years ago, it has emerged. | |
Jack Doyle, 17, was found at the rear of houses on Hope Street, near Antigua Street, at about 09:45 on Tuesday. | |
It is understood he had sustained serious injuries. | |
His aunt, Elaine Doyle, was strangled in Greenock in 1986 when she was 16. An appeal over her murder was made on the BBC's Crimewatch programme last year. | |
The decision to treat Jack Doyle's death as murder followed a post-mortem examination on Wednesday. | |
Det Ch Insp Duncan Sloan, who is leading the investigation, said: "Officers have been carrying our door-to-door enquiries and are checking CCTV from the area. | |
"These enquiries have told us that there was a report of a disturbance and blood found in a close in Antigua Street earlier in the morning near to where Jack's body was found. | "These enquiries have told us that there was a report of a disturbance and blood found in a close in Antigua Street earlier in the morning near to where Jack's body was found. |
"We know that Jack was in the Orangefield area of Greenock around 22:00 on Monday 2 January and what we need to do is establish his movements between then and when his body was found." | "We know that Jack was in the Orangefield area of Greenock around 22:00 on Monday 2 January and what we need to do is establish his movements between then and when his body was found." |
Jack's aunt, Elaine, was killed in Greenock on 1 June 1986. Her body was found the next day in a lane yards from her home. | |
The 16-year-old had been strangled and sexually assaulted. | |
The unsolved case was the subject of an appeal on the BBC's Crime watch programme last July. | |
Police said following the broadcast, which featured a reconstruction of her last movements, they had received more than 50 calls which had created new lines of inquiry. |