by admin | Sep 18, 2024 | Shootings
The United States of America has a long history of firearm related political assassinations and attempts. John F Kennedy was the last President to be shot and killed on the 22nd November 1963. As a direct result it is now well established and accepted that US...
by admin | Aug 29, 2024 | Shootings
On the 23 May 1934 the notorious outlaws, Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow were killed in a police ambush alongside what is now Highway 154, eight miles south of the small town of Gibsland in Bienville Parish, Louisiana, USA. In September 2022, eighty eight years...
by admin | Aug 13, 2024 | Shootings
In the early hours of the 05 August 1952 three members of a British family on a visit and camping holiday in the now 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/south N96, (now...
by admin | Aug 13, 2024 | Shootings
Jeremy Bamber and his supporters never give up, they remain confident that he may one day be released if they continue submitting legal challenges against his 1986 conviction for the shooting murders of five members of his family in August 1985. The latest was a...
by admin | Aug 13, 2024 | 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...
by admin | Aug 13, 2024 | Shootings
President of the United States, John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas now over sixty years ago on 22 November 1963. This cruel brutal act was prosecuted by Lee Harvey Oswald, a 24 year old, self absorbed, chaotic narcissist, at a location that...
by admin | Aug 13, 2024 | Shootings
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...
by admin | Aug 9, 2024 | Shootings
“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...
by admin | Aug 9, 2024 | 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 event draws a close comparison, but time has expired...
by admin | Jul 26, 2024 | Shootings
We have reached 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 were shot to...
