THE MUMBAI MASS SHOOTING TERROR – 2008

THE MUMBAI MASS SHOOTING TERROR – 2008

The Mumbai massacre took place in India exactly 15 years ago on 26 November 2008. It left 166 people dead and 300 wounded. The attack presented a ghastly insight into the planned and coordinated use of small arms by fanatical terrorists and served to reveal the utter...
WAR MEMORIALS – UK

WAR MEMORIALS – UK

The Great War of 1914 -1918 saw the greatest loss of life in a global conflict in modern history. Great Britain lost over 700,000 combatants, many of those on the Western Front in France and Belgium. The huge losses eventually prompted an upsurge in the construction...
RAOUL MOAT JULY 2010 – MURDER MAIM SHAME

RAOUL MOAT JULY 2010 – MURDER MAIM SHAME

Raoul Moat was a brutal murderer and criminal but a weak and cowardly character who ended his own life in front of police officers containing him on the banks of the River Coquet in the town of Rothbury in Northumberland on 10 July 2010. It was during the preceding...
LIVERPOOL’S RANDOM GUN KILLINGS

LIVERPOOL’S RANDOM GUN KILLINGS

When I wrote a feature two years ago about the August 2007 killing of 11-year-old Rhys Jones in Croxteth, Liverpool nobody could never have imagined that history would repeat itself on exactly the same day fifteen years later. On the evening of the 22nd August 2022...
MARK JONES 2015 – Lay-by murder

MARK JONES 2015 – Lay-by murder

Mark Jones, 43, worked as an HMRC Valuation Officer and lived with his wife and children in the small town of Mountain Ash near Pontypridd in Gwent, South Wales. His professional occupation was however supplemented by illegal drug dealing. On the evening of 26 July...