A MAN is to appear at Stranraer Sheriff Court today charged with
murdering a 54-year-old German tourist.
The man, who has not been named by Dumfries and Galloway police, has
also been charged in connection with the wounding of the man's wife,
son, and daughter.
Police have refused to give any further details of the person in
custody at Stranraer where an identity parade was held on Saturday.
His arrest on Friday followed 36-hours of intense investigation by
Scotland's smallest police force aided by neighbouring Strathclyde.
Around 100 officers, nearly half of them armed, combed the Cairnryan
area north of Stranraer after Thomas Boedeker, a 54-year-old architect
from Stuttgart, Germany, was murdered in front of his family.
His wife Renate, 48, is fighting for her life in the Western General
Hospital in Glasgow, where she was transferred on Friday from Dumfries
in a critical condition.
The daughter, Julia, 20, is seriously ill but stable in Dumfries
Infirmary and 15-year-old son, Just, is being cared for by police and
social workers.
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