THE ANNECY MURDERS – A STUDY OF ROADSIDE SHOOTINGS
September 5th 2019 was the 7th anniversary of the Annecy shootings, (or the Chevaline killings), where 3 members of a British family and a French citizen were mysteriously shot to […]
WHO KILLED GURINDERJIT RAI – July 2019
Just before 10.00 am on Saturday 14th July, 41-year-old Gurinderjit Rai from Eastleigh was found dead in a car parked in a roughly hewn lay-by almost directly opposite the entrance […]
WHO DIDN’T KILL JILL DANDO
We passed the 20th anniversary of the murder of journalist Jill Dando in April 2019. The lead Metropolitan Police investigator at the time, Detective Chief Inspector Hamish Campbell now believes […]
THE ANNECY MURDERS – Revisted October 2019
THE LACHEMENT ASSASSINE On October 14th exactly 4 years after my first visit to Le Martinet I was accompanied by a longstanding friend and professional photographer Chris Powell. It was […]
GUN KILLING IN FRANCE
It was reported in the press in March this year that, “A sleepy village in the French Alps has reacted with shock after the bullet-riddled body of a former French […]
MUMBAI TERROR 2008 – Location Location Location
The Mumbai massacre that took place in India in November 2008 presented a ghastly insight into the planned and coordinated use of small arms by terrorists and served to highlight […]
“Foxtrot Foxtrot” – THE DANDO DISTRACTION
April 28 1999 was a warm sunny spring day in London. Met Police Traffic Officers, Acting Sergeant Mark Newman and PC Steve Cox started a 1500 – 2300 late shift […]
TERRORIST SHOOTERS – We don’t know what we don’t know
“The great majority of British people have as much idea about how to identify a potential terrorist as their ancestors 400 years ago did about detecting witches”. Patrick Cockburn. The […]
KILLING THE ARCHDUKE – 1914
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 […]