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| Isabelle Sanders murder: Police 'know' identity of killer | |
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| Police believe they know the identity of a man who carried out two failed car jackings which saw one woman stabbed to death and a man wounded in the street. | |
| Isabelle Sanders, 51, was attacked at her home in Crookston, Glasgow, early on Wednesday. Her partner Norman Busby, 85, was also stabbed, but survived. | |
| Police believe the suspect earlier stabbed another man, and both incidents may have been attempted car jackings. | |
| They refused to confirm if there was a connection to a youth arrested earlier. | They refused to confirm if there was a connection to a youth arrested earlier. |
| Ms Sanders was murdered at her home in Raeswood Drive at about 01:55 on Wednesday. | |
| Det Supt Jim Kerr, from Police Scotland, said the stabbing was being linked to an earlier attack which took place at 23:15 on Tuesday. | |
| "We are now linking this event with a robbery at the Spar shop in Braehead Road in Crookston that occurred two-and-a-half hours earlier," he said. | |
| 'Desperate act' | |
| "A similarly described man, armed with a weapon, threatened a 33-year-old driver of a BMW motor vehicle and demanded the keys to steal that vehicle. | |
| "That person was last seen running off towards Househill Park behind the Spar shop." | |
| Det Supt Kerr said the failed car jacking incident was about 700 yards from Ms Sanders' home in Crookston. | |
| He described the incidents as "an act of desperation" and said he now believed they were linked. | |
| Police believe they have identified Ms Sanders' killer and are following a "definite line of inquiry". | |
| The force has not confirmed if the arrest of a 19-year-old man on Thursday was linked to the incidents. | |
| Police also revealed that they had taken a Vauxhall Astra, which was one of two cars owned by Ms Sanders and Mr Busby, from the scene and were examining it in detail. | |
| Serious injuries | |
| They said Mr Busby suffered similar injuries to his partner and that but for the expertise of staff at Glasgow's Southern General Hospital, they may have been investigating a double murder. | |
| Earlier, a neighbour of Ms Sanders told the BBC how he ran to her house after hearing the alarm in the early hours of Wednesday. | |
| He said he was "horrified" to see the 51-year-old lying dead and Mr Busby badly injured. | |
| The neighbour, who did not want to be identified, said Mr Busby told him that a man came to their door and pushed his way into the house before attacking them. | |
| The neighbour said it was "too late to do anything for Isabelle" but Mr Busby was able to tell him what had happened. | |
| The intruder had already fled the scene by the time the neighbour arrived. | |
| He said Mr Busby and Ms Sanders were "a lovely couple" who were "great neighbours" and he could not believe this had happened in an area where you could "hear a pin drop". | |
| Police have previously described the suspect as white, Scottish, with a local accent, between 20 and 30 years old, about 5ft 10in to 5ft 11in tall with a slim build and short dark hair. | |
| At the time of the incident he was wearing jeans, a light blue top and blue canvas deck shoes. |