by admin | Jun 7, 2026 | Shootings
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 1957 event draws a close comparison to the 2001...
by admin | Jun 3, 2026 | Person Profiles
I have been fortunate enough to have books and articles published about the use of firearms in crime and conflict. My latest project which I hope will be eventually published is a book called ‘Bullet Path’. This is a close study of over 25 shootings and...
by admin | Mar 13, 2026 | Shootings
Shooting murders are rare in the UK and that is a result of the limited access to firearms. Criminal shootings are generally perpetrated with illegally procured weapons. Domestic murders and mass shootings have often been prosecuted with licensed guns. These are...
by admin | Mar 12, 2026 | Shootings
Dunblane – we have reached the 30th anniversary. On 13 March 1996 Thomas Hamilton, 43, entered Dunblane Primary School near Stirling in Scotland and committed the worst ever recorded murderous act on children in the UK. It brought about the controversial hand...
by admin | Mar 9, 2026 | Shootings
Much has been written and debated about the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir apparent to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and his wife Sophie on June 28th 1914 in Sarajevo, Bosnia. The event has been considered to be the “Spark that ignited the...
