✝️ Susan Third, age 21 – February 27 2005, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom 🏴💔
Susan was mother of a five year old boy. She had been addicted to heroin since 2016. She applied for drug rehabilitation program starting in March and wanted to become a hair dresser.
Susan was strangled to death and then raped by Joseph Harrison, age 28. Susan saw Harrison weeping in his car because he had argued with his mother, then let him pour out his life story to her before saying she needed money. CCTV security camera footage showed Harrison drawing money from a city centre cash machine before returning to his car. He later put Susan`sbody in the boot of his car and drove it to a field before dumping it at Catterline, near Stonehaven. Harrison left the partially-clothed body next to his car before calling his pregnant girlfriend.
He admitted culpable homicide and was jailed for six years. He was freed early after four years, at the anniversary of Susan’s murder (!), but produced a knife during an appointment. Harrison, now 38, claimed he was hearing voices, and needed the knife for protection. After Perth Sheriff Court heard about the post-release incident with the knife, Sheriff Fiona Tait made Harrison the subject of a compulsion order. He will be detained at Murray Royal psychiatric hospital in Perth without limit of time.
At the court trial Susan’s aunt Sandra Third shouted „I hope you die in jail“ at Harrison as he was led away.
A family spokesperson said Susan`s relatives felt they had been let down by the justice system from beginning to end. The statement said: „Harrison’s advocate described him as naive. He was not too naive to know where to pick up a working girl, brutally strangle her, conceal her body in the boot of his car and drive to a secluded location, where he violated her dead body before leaving the scene of his awful crime.“
