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- ↑ Glasgow Crime Stories: The House of Blood in Govanhill's Dixon Avenue, Norman Silvester, Glasgow Times, 14 March 2021
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- ↑ House of Blood killer back in jail after abusing his new partner, Mark McGivern, Daily Record, 27 November 2018