RAYMOND Gilmour has revealed the shocking level of interrogation he suffered at the hands of police officers investigating the murder of Pamela Hastie.

Speaking on the two-part Anatomy of an Investigation programme on BBC Radio Scotland, he described how he was pressurised into saying he had killed Pamela.

Gilmour recalled: “They would mention Pamela Hastie and the murder, but then when I mentioned it they would say ‘who mentioned that? what are you bringing that up for?’ – as if it was me who had broached the subject in the first place.

“Then, because I couldn’t explain my movements on those days, because when your days are all the same from one day to the next you get confused, they got more and more of the opinion I had something to do with the death of Pamela Hastie.

“On the way down to the cells I was getting threatened.

“They were saying ‘you’d better have an answer for us by the time we get to these cells or you’re going to be in real trouble’.

“This was alien to me and I just didn’t know what I was in.

“It messed my head up and really started me panicking, as if to say ‘what happens if things do escalate?’”

The first time Gilmour confessed to the killing, Chief Superintendent James Brown, who was investigating at the time, decided it was false and didn’t charge him.

However, the following year, on the way to court to face indecent exposure charges, Gilmour apparently confessed to officers for a second time.

Again, he said this was due to being put under immense pressure.

He said: “I was back to square one and no-one was believing me.

“It started me thinking ‘Have I done this and not realised?’

“That’s how far it got because, when you’ve got five or six people in a room saying ‘no, it was you’, no matter how much you know it’s not true, it starts to wear you down a bit.

“I thought this isn’t going to change until I give them what they want. They were the police and the police didn’t make mistakes as far as they were concerned.”

Journalist Severin Carrell, who studied Pamela’s murder, also took part in the BBC Radio Scotland documentary, which looks at how he worked with defence lawyer Gordon Ritchie to uncover flaws in the investigation.

Mr Carrell said: “Everything about it – from top to bottom – just stank of a horrible, appalling miscarriage.

“It was a miscarriage for Raymond Gilmour and it certainly was for Pamela’s family.”