Benbecula

'It is dark now and my window onto the world is a small one. I do not know how much longer I will be here.' On 9 July 1857, Angus MacPhee, a labourer from Liniclate on the island of Benbecula, murdered his father, mother and aunt. At trial in Inverness he was found to be criminally insane and confined in the Criminal Lunatic Department of Perth Prison. Some years later, Angus's older brother Malco...