by admin | Jul 26, 2024 | 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 | Jul 26, 2024 | 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 | Jul 26, 2024 | Shootings
THE ANNECY MURDERS – now 10 years We are now approaching the twelve year anniversary of the still unsolved Annecy Murders which took place on 05 September 2012. These brutal killings took place in the alpine Haute-Savoie region of south eastern France. This feature is...
by admin | Jun 30, 2024 | 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...
by admin | Jun 10, 2024 | Person Profiles
The Argentine invasion of the Falklands Islands on 02 April 1982 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. Referred to as Naval...
by admin | May 19, 2024 | Person Profiles
I have been fortunate enough to have books and articles published about the use of firearms in crime and conflict. Why would I be any different to other writers who script narrative about this specific subject. Whilst at times it has been a violent journey, it is...
by admin | Apr 22, 2024 | 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 | Mar 13, 2024 | Shootings
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. Studying mass gun killers is not a simple science but can their ultimate actions be predicted....
by admin | Mar 13, 2024 | Shootings
Mass shootings always get our attention and whilst we are not subjected to the horror of this crime on a frequent basis in the UK many of us can relate to past events that have become established in our history. Hungerford 1987, Dunblane 1996 and Cumbria 2010. Some...
by admin | Feb 7, 2024 | Shootings
At around 7.00 pm on the 28 November 2004 Veronica Wilson answered the door bell to her home in Crescent Road in Nairn, Scotland. A stocky male she later described as aged 35 – 40 wearing a dark jacket and a baseball cap was stood on the doorstep. He asked to...
