William "Sonny" Leitch, also known as the Saughton Harrier and Danger Man, is a retired Scottish career criminal.
Leitch was born in
Craigneuk
Craigneuk is a suburb of Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The original village of Craigneuk was located in the area where Meadowhead Road meets the A721 at Craigneuk Street. It was originally part of Dalziel parish, along with the other rur ...
, Lanarkshire, and was a childhood friend of Thomas Joseph Winning,
Cardinal Winning
Thomas Joseph Winning (3 June 1925 – 17 June 2001) was a Scottish Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Glasgow from 1974 and President of the Bishops' Conference of Scotland from 1985 until his death. Winning ...
.
Leitch claims that his friend, the renowned safe-breaker
Johnny Ramensky, told him that he had stolen a hoard of
Nazi loot from the Rome area during the
Allied march on Rome in 1944, and that this hoard was later kept at the
Shepton Mallet military prison in Somerset, and the Royal Navy supply depot at
Carfin, Lanarkshire, after the war. He claimed that the hoard contained portraits of Hitler, Eva Braun, Goering, Goebbels and Himmler, and a treasure trove of jewellery and gold.
External links
The Esther Williams Wargames Trophy by Willie "Sonny" Leitch*
ttp://www.thehmsconsort.co.uk Willie "Sonny" Leitch's website
References
20th-century Scottish criminals
People from North Lanarkshire
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
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