WHO DIDN’T KILL JILL DANDO – 26 APRIL 1999

WHO DIDN’T KILL JILL DANDO – 26 APRIL 1999

Jill Dando, an admired and respected BBC TV journalist was shot to death outside the front door of a property she owned in London on 26 April 1999. That attack, now 25 years ago was an unprovoked, frantic and messy opportunity killing perpetrated by an assailant who...
MURDER IN THE OUTBACK 2001 – Peter Falconio

MURDER IN THE OUTBACK 2001 – Peter Falconio

“Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened”. Thomas Hardy – Poet and Novelist 1840 -1928 On the 13th December 2005 Bradley John Murdoch, 46 was found guilty by jury in the Supreme Court of the Northern...
THE SUNDOWN MURDERS – South Australia 1957

THE SUNDOWN MURDERS – South Australia 1957

A brutal gun murder took place alongside the Australian Stuart Highway on the 5th December 1957, forty four years before the circumstances that befell the UK travellers, Peter Falconio and Joanne Lees in 2001. This event draws a close comparison, but time has expired...
THE ANNECY MURDERS – 05 Sept 2012

THE ANNECY MURDERS – 05 Sept 2012

We are close to reaching the 12th anniversary of the Annecy shootings, (or the Chevaline killings), in France. These brutal murders occurred on the 5th September 2012. 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...