Published: Tuesday, 31st August, 2010 9:30am

WDC DEFEND HOUSING AXE KILLER

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Council bosses in West Dunbartonshire are trying to allay residents fears, after one of Scotland's most notorious killers was discovered to be living in a housing estate in Dumbarton.

Axe murderer Thomas McCulloch has been accommodated in a terraced council house on Strathclyde Road in the Townend area, as prison chiefs prepare him for release.

A previous attempt to re-settle him in Risk Street in Dumbarton was aborted after an uproar from residents there, and those in Strathclyde Road are now equally worried.