Forty-four-year-old Michael Madden lived in a first-floor flat on Sunnyside Avenue in Port Glasgow, Renfrewshire, Scotland, with his girlfriend Courtney, who was seven months pregnant. He was officially unemployed, but allegedly worked as a loan shark in his working-class neighborhood.
At around nine-fifteen p.m. on the night of Saturday, October 13th, 2001, there was a knock at the door of Michael Madden’s residence. When he answered the summons, he was shot dead on his doorstep at point-blank range.
The shooting was the fourth in the area in just the last week: on October 9th, forty-five-year-old John Hall and thirty-three-year-old David McIntosh were executed in a scrapyard in Lanarkshire. And on October 7th, twenty-eight-year-old cab driver Andrew Tildesley was gunned down in front of his home in Greenock, in a crime that was believed to be connected to the drug trade. Authorities remained open to the possibility that there was a link between the murder of Andrew Tildesley and that of Michael Madden.
In 2003, notorious Scottish gangster Philip Dailly was arrested and charged with Michael Madden’s slaying, as well as the murder of a small-time criminal named Mick Doherty, whose dismembered body was discovered in a bog in 1995.
At his trial, Michael Madden’s girlfriend claimed she had heard Dailly’s voice from the doorstep seconds before Michael was shot, and another witness stated that Dailly had bragged to him about committing the crime. However, there wasn’t enough evidence to definitively pin either murder on him, and the jury returned a not proven verdict.
Since that time, there has been no further movement in the investigation.
Crime Immemorial 