In 1994, Robert Black was convicted of the kidnapping, sexual assault
and murder of four young girls, and sentenced to life imprisonment with
a minimum tariff of thirty-five years. He died in HMP Maghaberry,
Northern Ireland, in January 2016, aged sixty-eight, unmourned, and
entirely unrepentant of his repellent crimes.These bald facts, horrific
as they are, do not begin to scratch the surface of the truth about
Robert Black, a Scottish-born serial killer who undoubtedly committed
further murders for which he was never tried, both in this country and
on the Continent. In this ground-breaking account, Robert Giles, who has
spent years tracing the killer's movements and sifting through all the
evidence, including transcripts of the trials, convincingly argues that
Black was an habitual serial killer over many years, and quite certainly
responsible for more than the four child murders for which he was
convicted.Co-written with Chris Clark, a former police intelligence
officer whose tireless work into the Yorkshire Ripper produced
convincing new evidence of other murders that went unnoticed or
unrecorded, The Face of Evil shows once and for all that Robert Black
was a serial killer whose crimes went far beyond what is generally
believed. In doing so, it paints a portrait of human cruelty at its
worst.
