It was a sunny evening on July 8, 1983 when five-year-old Caroline Hogg – still wearing a pretty gingham dress from an afternoon party – was playing happily on Portobello Promenade.

The lively youngster had begged her mother, Annette, for a few more minutes outside to go to the seaside swing park near her home.

Witnesses would later report seeing her riding a
double-decker bus on a roundabout at the popular Fun City
fairground.

But after it stopped, Caroline walked away hand-in-hand with a “scruffy-looking” man who had just paid 15p to the cashier for her turn as he stood nearby and watched.

That happy little girl would never be seen again and, 30 years later, her murder continues to haunt Edinburgh and the minds of the detectives who
finally caught her killer.