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 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...
by admin | Apr 11, 2023 | Shootings
Raoul Moat was a brutal murderer and criminal but a weak and cowardly character who ended his own life in front of police officers containing him on the banks of the River Coquet in the town of Rothbury in Northumberland on 10 July 2010. It was during the preceding...
by admin | Mar 31, 2023 | Shootings
When I wrote a feature two years ago about the August 2007 killing of 11-year-old Rhys Jones in Croxteth, Liverpool nobody could never have imagined that history would repeat itself on exactly the same day fifteen years later. On the evening of the 22nd August 2022...
by admin | Dec 19, 2022 | Shootings
Mark Jones, 43, worked as an HMRC Valuation Officer and lived with his wife and children in the small town of Mountain Ash near Pontypridd in Gwent, South Wales. His professional occupation was however supplemented by illegal drug dealing. On the evening of 26 July...
by admin | Dec 19, 2022 | Shootings
Just before 10:00 am on Saturday 14 July 2019, 41-year-old Gurinderjit Rai was found dead by passing horse riders in the driving seat of a car parked in a roughly hewn lay-by almost directly opposite the entrance to Corhampton Golf Club in Hampshire. A post-mortem...
by admin | Dec 19, 2022 | Shootings
It was reported in the press in March 2019 that, “A sleepy village in the French Alps has reacted with shock after the bullet-riddled body of a former French “spy” who had been linked to a plot to kill a Congolese opposition leader was found on the side of...
by admin | Feb 10, 2022 | Person Profiles
A miscarriage of justice is generally defined as a legal situation in which someone is wrongly punished by a court of law for something they did not do. It is not straightforward however, there are challenging complexities. It might also be used to describe the...
by admin | Nov 23, 2021 | Person Profiles
In November 2014 a 23 year old Austrian by the name of Manuel Wallner visited South Wales. He came to the UK, well outside of the holiday/visiting season for a very specific purpose. In August 2015 a colleague of mine noticed a steel roadside structure on the B4065 in...
by admin | Jan 14, 2020 | Shootings
In October 2017 a 76 year old man who had suffered a stroke was admitted into a care home in Durham. That was not remarkable but this particular elderly gentleman was far from ordinary, he was serving a whole life term in prison for murder. His name was Albert Dryden....
