“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
JOHN PALMER – “Killing Goldfinger”
In 2009 John Palmer returned to his family in Essex having served prison sentences for fraud. Nicknamed “Goldfinger”, John Palmer from very ordinary beginnings had built an empire largely from […]
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 […]
ANNECY MURDERS – A LINK TO THE HUNGERFORD MASSACRE
On September 5th 2018 we reached the 6th anniversary of the the Annecy shootings, (or the Chevaline killings), where 3 members of an Iraqi born British family and a French […]
ALBERT DRYDEN – MURDER ON TV, DURHAM 1991
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 […]
THE STRANGE CASE OF MANUEL WALLNER
This 23 year old Austrian drove to the UK in November 2014. Having completed his military national service he planned to embark on a career in the international security and […]