William Toye

Unsolved Murders

Age: 36

Sex: male

Date: 5 Sep 1996

Place: A Hall, Perth Prison

William Toye was stabbed in Perth Prison on Thursday 5 September 1996.

Four prisoners were arrested in connection with his murder and two tried, but not proven verdicts were returned.

William Toye was stabbed in A Hall around midday and rushed to the PRI but died at 12.50pm. He had been stabbed once in the heart.

The initial charge against the four men, which they all denied was that:

On September 5 in a cell in A Hall of Perth Prison, they all assaulted William Toye in the cell and struck him on the chest with a knife or similar instrument, and as a result, Toye sustained injuries from which he died and they murdered him.

William Toye had been convicted, along with two other people, of the murder of 28-year-old Eddie Maxwell in Clydebank. It was heard that they had killed him so he couldn't testify at William Toye's bother's murder trial. Eddie Maxwell had been hacked to death weeks before he was due to give evidence.

It was thought that William Toye himself had been murdered as part of a drugs war. It was claimed that he had been moved to the cell block where he was murdered, despite warnings he'd be in danger. He had been moved from D Hall to A Hall the previous week. Within hours of the move he was said to have got into a fight with another prisoner that had been running the hall's drug trade. They then clashed again less than 24 hours before he was murdered.

A prison source said:

Worm Toye was the sort who was bound to get into something like this. There were several warnings from staff and cons that he'd clash with people in A Hall because of his involvement in drugs. The warnings were ignored and now we have an inmate in the morgue. Toye was jumped by three or four bodies. It only took one plunge to kill him.

However, the prison governor said that there had been no official or credible warnings against moving William Toye to A Hall.

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see en.wikipedia.org

see Perthshire Advertiser - Tuesday 10 September 1996

see Scotland on Sunday - Sunday 03 December 1995

see The Scotsman - Wednesday 13 September 1995

see Daily Record - Friday 06 September 1996