Portobello

least one starting in Glasgow beforehand.

And then Portobello.

and then ourselves we're the third to start up and then we have one around Holyrood Park.

We're quite a tight trail course so we all can get quite a lot for our courses number wise.

His next victim would be even younger.

On Friday, the 8th of July, 1983, in the seaside resort of Portobello, just outside Edinburgh, five-year-old Caroline Hogg was at home with

her family.

It's a summer's evening.

15 minutes, Caroline's brother went to look for her, but there was no sign of her, and her parents called the police at 8 p.m. Tom Wood was again part of the team that was investigating the disappearance of the young girl.

Again, we started looking for her.

A lot of people had seen her or thought they had seen her in the area of Portobello Promenade.

On that summer's day, there were thousands of people on that promenade.

Welcome to Working for Progress, a podcast from Tribe Porti, a community co-working space in Portobello, Edinburgh.

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Now, Why is that important? Who's Sir Harry Lauder? Well, Sir Harry Lauder, Harry Lauder, he wasn't knighted immediately after being born.

He was born as Harry Lauder in 1870 in Portobello near Edinburgh.

His childhood was hard.

His father died when he was still a boy, forcing the family into poverty.

I, um...

So I was, I was sort of permanently based in Portobello, um, but the venue's-

In Edinburgh.

Yes, in Edinburgh, but the venue's closed.

So we set out on a long, long investigation.

And then a year later, exactly a year later, in July 1983, Caroline Hogg, a five-year-old girl from Portobello in Edinburgh.

Portobello is a seaside town just east of Edinburgh, part of Edinburgh, but, you know, just on the outskirts of Edinburgh.

She was snatched from outside her house in July, Friday afternoons.

July, hot weather, always warm weather, and Caroline was snatched and her body was found not too far away from the deposition site of Susan Maxwell.

Probably about 25, 30% of our children c- come from Haddington.

The rest come from right across East Lothian, um, from, um, as far away as, uh, Dunbar, uh, even Duns and North Berwick, uh, right the way along to Musselburgh, Portobello, Dalkeith, um, and, um, uh, down to, uh, uh, the likes of Sutra, Carfraemill, G- Gifford, and then everything in between.

Uh, so, uh, we're very much a regional school and, uh, what's lovely about that is obviously, um, our families have their roots in the local community, but also they then have the benefits of friends and, and, um, and, uh, friendship within the, uh, our own, their own school community too.

Um, and, uh, it's, uh, particularly I think now with the, the journey time that, um, uh, uh, it's, uh, previously took, for instance, to head in and out of the capital, um, you know, parents, the, the, the longest journey that, um, a child might have to, uh, The Compass is probably 25, 30 minutes from, from door to door.

And they missed the conversion, so it was 24-all, or so we all thought.

And we were speaking to the Berwick coaches as we walked across at the end of it, we all thought it was 24-all, and Berwick had had two yellow cards and Portobello had one, which meant...

Portobello would progress because I don't know if you remember a couple of weeks ago we had a story in the bulletin and it was the first time that anyone knew of that Wigtownshire and Annan had been playing in the West Shield or something and they'd drawn and they'd gone to try scored penalties all these things and they was decided by a red card anyway this game should have been decided by yellow cards we all thought but the referee decided seemed to remember a track that nobody else could so he was recording at 29.24 so there's been a lot of back and forward back and forward but we had confirmation from the SRU this morning that it was 24 all and Portobello heroically progressed to the next

round

which I mean I would argue the boys did well but they should count themselves very lucky but yeah so they did it wasn't a great game of rugby I'll be honest with you I've seen them play a lot better but they got there in the end

You're working with different detectives, with, with, with, with different skillsets.

Um, and then a year later, almost to the day, Caroline Hogg was abducted, a wee five-year-old from Portobello, just outside Edinburgh, in exactly the same circumstances, and her body was also found down in the Midlands of England.

And we knew then that we had a, a, a predatory, uh, pedophile, a traveler, and a snatcher.

And there were several things we knew then.