IT'S never low-key when the polis turn up at 'the dancing'.

And in 1956, the stakes couldn't have been higher.

Police Superintendent James Hendry had gatecrashed this dance party in Blantyre to question revellers over the murder or 17-year-old Anne Kneilands, whose battered body had been found on an East Kilbride golf course.

Little did police know that the murder signalled the start of serial killer Peter Manuel's reign of terror.

Although he was questioned by police about the murder and would confess to it two years later, Manuel escaped arrest.

Manuel was tried in 1958 for eight murders.

On 11 July 1958, Manuel was hanged at Barlinnie Prison, by Harry Allen. His last words are reported to have been: "Turn up the radio and I'll go quietly".