Sex offender uses false name to run Glasgow ghost walks

A guide who organises spooky ghost walks for Halloween can today be exposed as a convicted sex offender who uses a fake name.

Alex Bulloch runs tours called the Glasgow Ghost Walk using the false name of Alex McGlumphy on social media – a breach of strict rules.

The 41-year-old also works as a DJ using Facebook for bookings.

“Alex the DJ” even played a Police Scotland charity event after being convicted of sex offences.

Top hat and cape-clad Bulloch promises “spooktacular fun” in the run-up to Halloween on the late night jaunts around the city.

But it’s Bulloch’s criminal past that is the real scare story.

Bulloch, from the village of New Stevenston in Lanarkshire, was convicted in 2009 and sentenced to 18 months in jail for child sex offences.

When Bulloch was caged he was put on the sex offenders register until 2019 and banned from working with children.

Bulloch had been selling sweets and treats from an ice cream van around villages in North Lanarkshire when he admitted groping two 14-year-old girls who worked with him.

In 2009, Hamilton Sheriff Court heard, Bulloch developed an “unhealthy” infatuation with the girls just weeks after they started working with him.

He was eventually caught after one of the girls’ friends called her mum who called police.

Since being released from jail, brazen Bulloch has re-invented himself as a macabre guide to Glasgow’s “darker side” telling customers about “ghosts, executions, plagues, witchcraft and more.”

He uses Facebook to push his tours, but according to the platform’s own rules, convicted sex offenders are not allowed to use the site.

Bulloch also works as a part-time DJ with a company called DJ Hire Scotland, which says it provides discos, karaokes and race nights.

The website has recently been taken down but reviews on it included an organiser thanking “Alex and Team DJ Hire Scotland” for “supporting the Police Scotland versus Staffordshire Police charity boxing match” which took place in 2014 to raise funds in the wake of the Clutha helicopter disaster.

We went on one of Bulloch’s £7.50 ghost walks last week where he told haunting stories – as well as making a number of sleazy jokes.

At one point, he revealed that inspecting a female body for moles, marks and defects was one technique for finding a witch in Glasgow. Bulloch then pointed to one of the girls on the tour and said: “We’ll see if that’s true later.”

We approached Bulloch at his Motherwell home to ask him if using aliases was right for someone on the sex offenders register.

He said: “I couldn’t care less.”

Facebook said they were investigating the pages Bulloch used. Last night, his page had been removed.