Willie McRae

EPISODE 6.11: WILLIE MCRAE

A thorn in the side of the British establishment, Scottish lawyer and political heavyweight Willie McRae met his doom on a windswept hillside in the remote Highlands. An anti-nuclear activist and leading supporter of Scotland’s independence from the UK, McRae made enemies over the years. But did anyone have motive enough to kill him? We look at the last hours of his life, the unusual aspects of the scene where he was found, and the baffling official investigation that followed. This is the first installment of a two-part investigation.