JOHN PALMER – ‘Killing Goldfinger’

JOHN PALMER – ‘Killing Goldfinger’

John Palmer, nicknamed Goldfinger came from very ordinary beginnings. Starting out as a market trader, he had built a very lucrative empire largely from property development before he was murdered in 2015. He had been an influential character during the later 1980’s...
MY RESEARCH, BLOGS & BOOKS

MY RESEARCH, BLOGS & BOOKS

I have been fortunate enough to have books and articles published about the use of firearms in crime and conflict. My latest project is a book called ‘Bullet Path’. This is a close study of over 25 shootings and assassinations which have taken place around...
THE ANNECY MURDERS – 05 Sept 2012

THE ANNECY MURDERS – 05 Sept 2012

We have now reached the 13th anniversary of the Annecy shootings, (or Chevaline killings), in France. These brutal shooting murders occurred on the 5th September 2012 when three members of a British/Iraqi family who were on a caravan holiday and a local French citizen...
THE ANNECY MURDERS – Revisted October 2019

THE ANNECY MURDERS – Revisted October 2019

THE LACHEMENT ASSASSINE On 14 October 2019, exactly 4 years after my first visit to the Le Martinet murder site I was accompanied by a longstanding friend and professional photographer Chris Powell. The weather was glorious, the sun spreading a comfortable autumn...