by admin | Jul 31, 2025 | Shootings
There have been many examples in history of murders perpetrated or arranged by rich, privileged, and famous individuals. Recognition and fame attracts media attention, speculation and a wider interest. That involvement has on occasions influenced a legal outcome. Law...
by admin | Jul 28, 2025 | Shootings
The President of the United States, John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas on 22 November 1963. That will be 62 years ago this year. An investigation, conducted by the Warren Commission, ten months later concluded that this cruel brutal act was...
by admin | Jul 27, 2025 | Shootings
Meeting Buell Frazier In November 2024 I met Buell Wesley Frazier in Dallas, Texas. Buell was the work colleague who innocently brought Lee Harvey Oswald to their workplace in the TSBD, (Texas School Book Depository), on Friday 22 November 1963, the day JFK was...
by admin | Jul 16, 2025 | 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 | Jul 16, 2025 | 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 12, 2025 | Person Profiles
The Argentine invasion of the Falklands Islands on 02 April 1982, now 43 years ago, was very personal to the Royal Marines. Not only because they put up the initial fighting defence but because the Corps had provided security detachments for the islands since 1965....
by admin | Jul 12, 2025 | Shootings
On the 22 August 1962 a serious attempt was made to assassinate President Charles De Gaulle of France. Much has been written about this assassination attempt and a good deal is inaccurate and speculative. My purpose is to outline the physical and technical aspects of...
by admin | Apr 28, 2025 | Person Profiles
28 April 1999 was a warm sunny spring day in London. Met Police Traffic Officers, Acting Sergeant Mark Newman and PC Steve Cox started a 15:00 – 23:00 hrs shift in the normal manner. Having attended the shift brief and checked over their patrol Land Rover...
by admin | Apr 26, 2025 | Shootings
Jill Dando, an admired and respected BBC TV journalist was shot to death outside the front door of a property she owned in Fulham, London on 26 April 1999. That attack, now 26 years ago was an unprovoked, frantic and messy opportunity killing perpetrated by an...
by admin | Mar 25, 2025 | Shootings
Preparation, training and readiness for potential terror attacks is a very relevant UK topic now in 2025. But where do the general public stand within this, how effective are the police and our security services, what do we know, how far do we go, how detailed does...