SCOTTISH detectives hunting the murderer of an Aberdeen father yesterday raided two addresses in the West Midlands in their search for the killer.
The early-morning raids in Birmingham were carried out by murder squad detectives from Grampian Police investigating the death of Christopher Branigan, 41, who was stabbed in a block of flats in Ritchie Place, Tillydrone, last Tuesday.
The raids
were carried out in co-operation with officers from West Midlands Police.
Dressed in protective clothing, officers used battering rams to force their way into the two homes which were raided.
Officers targeted a house on Elmwood Gardens at 6:25am yesterday and dozens more stormed a similar property in an operation in the city's Maxstoke Street.
No-one was arrested as a result of the raids, and Grampian Police said that the investigation was continuing.
But Detective Inspector Malcolm Stewart, who is heading the murder hunt , said: "We are following a positive line of inquiry and have enlisted the support of our colleagues from the West Midlands.
"However, I emphasise that inquiries are still ongoing."
Grampian Police announced last week that they were seeking to trace a black man who was spotted leaving the tenement block on the night Mr Branigan died.
He was aged about 30, between 5ft 8in and 6ft tall, of athletic build and with a shaved head. He was wearing dark clothing.
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