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...
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 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 | 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...
