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...
by admin | Feb 7, 2024 | Shootings
The murder of politicians, country leaders and heads of state generates extraordinary amounts of speculation, opinion, and analysis. Even clear evidence and reliable testimonies from trusted witnesses is often not enough for the doubters and conspiracy advocates who...
by admin | Jan 13, 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 | Dec 28, 2023 | Shootings
On the 29 December 2009 Andrew Copland, a 56-year-old painter shot to death his estranged partner Julie Harrison and their 4-year-old daughter Maisie Copland. He then took his own life with the same gun. Copland had lured them to his property in Aldershot, Hampshire...
by admin | Nov 27, 2023 | Shootings
The Mumbai massacre took place in India exactly 15 years ago on 26 November 2008. It left 166 people dead and 300 wounded. The attack presented a ghastly insight into the planned and coordinated use of small arms by fanatical terrorists and served to reveal the utter...
by admin | Nov 15, 2023 | Shootings
Better preparation, training and readiness for potential terror attacks was a very relevant UK topic in 2022. Of course it still is 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...
by admin | Nov 11, 2023 | Person Profiles
The Great War of 1914 -1918 saw the greatest loss of life in a global conflict in modern history. Great Britain lost over 700,000 combatants, many of those on the Western Front in France and Belgium. The huge losses eventually prompted an upsurge in the construction...
