The brother of a car salesman murdered 20 years ago has called for police to reopen their probe –claiming investigators uncovered DNA evidence that could finally solve the case.
Alexander Blue, 41, was found stabbed and savagely beaten in the driveway of his luxury home in Glasgow’s upmarket West End just after midnight on 25 June 2002.
The businessman’s head injuries were so horrific his mother did not recognise him at first when she visited him in the city’s Southern General Hospital, where he died two days later having never regained consciousness.
Detectives have quizzed more than 5,000 people over the murder and Alex’s family and friends raised a £25,000 reward for information.
But no one has ever stood trial for the killing.
Alex’s older brother Billy, 64, holds out hope his sibling’s killer might still one day be caught so their elderly mother Kathy, now 89, can get justice before she dies.
As the 20th anniversary of his brother’s death approaches, Billy has revealed detectives reportedly told him seven partial DNA matches had been found using new technology during a review of evidence found at the murder scene.
He told the Scottish Sun the information was shared with him during a meeting on the 13th anniversary of the murder but that police allegedly pulled the plug on the case.
Billy, who lives in the Robroyston area of Glasgow, believes three men carried out the attack on Alex and previously claimed he knew who ordered the “hit” on his brother.
Alex was last seen leaving the Bean Scene cafe in Byres Road at about 8pm on Monday 24 June 2002.
He is believed to have been attacked immediately after parking his silver Porsche outside his Georgian-style ground-floor flat about half a mile away in Dundonald Road, Dowanhill.
The businessman, who part-owned The Taxi Centre, which sold cars to the private hire taxi trade, was discovered lying unconscious in a pool of his own blood behind the townhouse in the early hours of 25 June 2002.
Police later learned the seemingly successful businessman had been made bankrupt in 1999 and his debts had been discharged only two weeks before his death.
In 2005, detectives told Grampian TV’s Unsolved series the key to solving the murder may lie in the complex financial background of the victim.
They also revealed Alex had made a note in his diary of a planned meeting on the day of his death with a person called D Hobbs – who police said may also have gone by the name D Robertson.
Alexander Blue pictured as a child
In the hours before his murder, Alex was seen carrying a briefcase which allegedly contained £30,000. The briefcase and money have never been found.
One theory floated is that Alex may have been the victim of a house-buying scam and robbed of the money he was carrying.
Two men were seen in a black BMW near Alex’s home at about 10.45pm on 24 June.
A neighbour also reported hearing at least two men arguing inside his flat on the evening of the murder.
Detectives have previously said the key to solving Alexander Blue’s murder may lie in his complex financial background
