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 nearly 27 years ago was an unprovoked, frantic and messy opportunity killing perpetrated by an...
by admin | Mar 3, 2025 | 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 | Dec 15, 2024 | Shootings
On the 24th February 2020, a month before the first Coronavirus lock down, John Zurick, 67, shot to death his estranged wife Debbie at their property near the village of Winsford on Exmoor. He then took his own life. A respected and well connected couple, they...
by admin | Dec 15, 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 12, 2024 | 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 | 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...
