Terrified torture town locals demand police description of suspect

dailyrecord.co.uk:

Terrified locals in two towns at the centre of a "kidnap and torture" murder probe are urging police to release a description of the suspect.Alan Lawson, 36, died in hospital two days after he was discovered seriously injured at his home in Saltcoats, Ayrshire, on Sunday.

He is understood to have been held hostage and tortured at a property in Largs before being dumped back at his home. Lawson's self-confessed attacker then boasted of his sickening crime on social media app Snapchat, sharing footage he claimed showed Alan's severely wounded body on the floor of a blood-splattered room.He also shared a topless picture of himself, with his naked torso smeared in his victim's blood.Officers have said they are following a "positive line of enquiry" into Lawson's death, but residents in both Saltcoats and Largs say they are petrified that his killer is still at large and feel left in the dark about what, or who, to look out for.

One Saltcoats resident told the Record: "There is a killer on the loose but the police haven't released any information on a description.'We have no idea what the person they are hunting might look like.

If we did and one of us saw him in the towns, we could contact the police."But right now, I could pass him in the street and not even know."Another parent who lives locally to where the terrifying incident took place added that children have been banned from playing outside amid fears the killer may be walking amongst them.They said: "There were rumours that he is was hiding out locally, but nobody has any idea what he might look like."My kids haven't been allowed out to play after school since the murder.