Andrew Walker (1953/1954 – 3 September 2021)[1] was a British Army corporal in the Royal Scots who murdered three colleagues in a payroll robbery in the Pentland Hills, south of Edinburgh, in January 1985.
On 17 January 1985, retired Major David Cunningham, 56, Staff Sergeant Terence Hosker, 39, Royal Army Pay Corps and Private John Thomson, 25, of the Kings Own Scottish Borderers picked up a £19,000 payroll from a Penicuik bank to take to the Glencorse Barracks in Penicuik, Midlothian where all were stationed.
[3] According to the prosecution at his trial, Walker, armed with a Sterling submachine gun that he had signed out from the armoury,[4][3] forced the trio to drive away from the bank.
[8] Walker was found guilty of murder, the theft of the money, and attempting to pervert the course of justice for trying to smuggle the letter out of prison.
[5] After an initially successful career in the army, with three tours to Northern Ireland and a mention in dispatches,[5] he had been the subject of disciplinary penalties in the months before the robbery and murders.
A commanding officer, Lt Col Fairweather, had disciplined him and said: "Unless you get a grip of yourself, I can see you wearing a blue suit and eating porridge".