police just 30 minutes before her broken body was found discarded like rubbish on a beachside track favoured by dog walkers, criminals and lovebird couples.Her body was so badly damaged, experienced detectives thought she’d been in a car smash.But tragic Sheila Anderson had, in fact, been repeatedly run over by someone who wanted her dead.And her brutal murder was the catalyst for change in the way the sex industry in Scotland’s capital was policed, and set about changing attitudes to sex workers across the world.It was 1983.
Edinburgh was in the grip of an epidemic - heroin was flooding the streets and hitting communities hard and fast.The number of addicts had rocketed from dozens to thousands.Sadly, Sheila, a mother of two, had fallen.
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