sentences:  Knox presented the fifteen-minute slot for over ten years, always signing off with the promise that any calls to the police "can be in confidence".At this time he also made a series of short programmes called "Tales of Crime", also for STV, in which he recounted famous Scottish criminal cases.His crime novels from the 1960s onwards, and in the 1970s his "Crimedesk" television series, publicised the Glasgow slang term "neds", referring to petty criminals or small-time hoodlums.