Glasgow boy murdered by paedophile living nearby becomes focus of new Netflix show

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Police officers who investigated a notorious paedophile murder have called for the authorities to change the way sex offenders are housed.It’s been more than 20 years since a report warned predators should not be housed in blocks of flats.But then eight-year-old Mark Cummings was murdered in a Glasgow high-rise by beast Stuart Leggate in 2004.

And only last year we told how Da Vinci Code Rapist Robert Greens was moved into an apartment above a young mother and her children.Now for the first time, police who probed Mark’s murder have spoken out to stop history repeating itself.In a new Netflix documentary about the horrific killing, now-retired officers tell of their shock at how living among families in a high-rise made it so easy for registered sex offender (RSO) Leggate to target the youngster.PC Gary Scott – the first officer on the scene when Mark went missing – said: “The authorities on this occasion got it wrong.

Stuart Leggate should never have been in that flat. There should have been more checks done.In 2001, the Cosgrove Report – following the murder of nine-year-old Scott Simpson in Aberdeen by paedophile Steven Leisk – warned that RSOs should not be housed in blocks of flats.But only three years later, tragic Mark was lured to his death by Leggate, a serial predator with previous child sex convictions, who was a neighbour in a high-rise in Royston, Glasgow.He sexually assaulted and strangled the youngster in his flat before dumping his body down a rubbish chute.The latest Netflix programme – When Missing Turns To Murder – has allowed police officers on the frontline during the case to speak out.PC Scott said: “[Leggate] was on the sex offenders’ register so he had been involved in offences before with young