by admin | Oct 7, 2025 | Shootings
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...
by admin | Oct 2, 2025 | 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 is a book called ‘Bullet Path’. This is a close study of over 25 shootings and assassinations which have taken place around...
by admin | Sep 20, 2025 | Shootings
The United States of America has a long history of firearm related political assassinations and attempts. Four serving Presidents have been assassinated and one seriously wounded. One presidential candidate has been assassinated and three others wounded, one very...
by admin | Sep 5, 2025 | Shootings
We have reached the 13th 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 were shot to...
by admin | Sep 4, 2025 | Shootings
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...
by admin | Sep 4, 2025 | Shootings
The Annecy Murders took place during the afternoon of Wednesday 05 September 2012 in the Haute-Savoie region of South East France. Four people were shot dead and a child was seriously wounded in an accessible wooded location near the village of Chevaline. The...
by admin | Sep 4, 2025 | Shootings
THE ANNECY MURDERS – 10 years The still unsolved Annecy Murders were prosecuted on 05 September 2012. These brutal killings took place in the alpine Haute-Savoie region of south eastern France. This feature is a result of my third visit to the location in July 2022...
by admin | Aug 15, 2025 | Shootings
In the early hours of the 05 August 1952 three members of a British family on a visit and camping holiday in what is now the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence region of south east France were brutally murdered on the side of a rural road. The location was on the north and south...
by admin | Aug 3, 2025 | Shootings
Jeremy Bamber was convicted for murdering five members of his family, forty years ago in their home, Whitehouse Farm in Essex during the night of 6-7 August 1985. This included his two six year old nephews, Daniel and Nicholas Caffell. The initial police investigation...
by admin | Aug 3, 2025 | Shootings
In the early hours of 02 June 2010, taxi driver Derrick Bird, 52, left his home in the West Cumbria village of Rowrah armed with a licenced George Fisher 12 bore shotgun and a CZ 452 bolt-action .22 rifle and a supply of ammunition for both weapons. The rifle was...
