In August of 1984, a double sexual assault took place in West Norwood, south London, UK. A teenager assaulted a woman in her home and forced her flatmate to join in the abuse. The teenager wore a balaclava and used a iron bar to force the woman and her male flatmate to undress. He then forced [...]
Tags: Crime Scene, Evidence, Finger Printing, Forensics, Identification, Investigations Division, Police, UK, VictimAnother interesting comment about the case of Alice Barton has appeared online. It can be found here. The writer of this second comment raises good points. Police will have to look into the following matters: where did Aimee’s grandparents exactly live, which pub did the grandfather frequent and how did he get there after work. Did he have any means of [...]
Tags: Crime Scene, Identification, Police, UK, Unsolved Homicide, VictimThe BBC posts that police have new leads in the cold case of Alice Barton (49) who was killed in 1955. Her body was found in Woodchurch, Birkenhead, UK. Her murderer has never been caught and the case remained open. Merseyside Police’s Serious Crime Review Unit has recently received new information about the case. A police spokeswoman [...]
Tags: Crime Scene, Identification, Investigations Division, Police, UK, Unsolved Homicide, VictimThomas Joyce and Darren Hamilton have both been charged with conspiracy to commit fraud. They are due before the Stockport Magistrates Court on Friday, July 23, 2010, along with Jake Hayes and Nathan Benson who were earlier charged with conspiracy to commit fraud. Stephen Benson of no fixed abode was earlier charged with causing death by dangerous driving and [...]
Tags: Crime Scene, Evidence, Forensics, Identification, Investigations Division, Police, UK, Unsolved Homicide, VictimTwo men have been charged in connection with the death of Mike Silcock, a Greater Manchester Police officer. Jake Hayes, 22, of HMP Manchester and Nathan Benson, 20, of HMP Altcourse, have both been charged with conspiracy to commit fraud. A third man Stephen Benson, 25, of no fixed abode, was charged last Tuesday with [...]
Tags: Mike Silcock, slain officer, UKArrest in the case of Pc Mike Silcock who was hit by a car in Didbsury Road, Heaton Mersey, on 6 March last year! Stephen Benson, 25, of no fixed abode, has been accused of causing death by dangerous driving and conspiracy to commit fraud. He is due before Stockport magistrates on Wednesday. Four other [...]
Tags: Autopsy, Crime Scene, Evidence, Identification, Police, UK, Unsolved Homicide, VictimNew fingerprint technology has enabled police to identify a woman who was killed on the M25 in Hertfordshire, UK, 20 years ago. The victim’s name: Lesley Ann Pickavance. Lesley Ann had been in contact with her family, who are from Bedford, but was not living with them during the summer of 1990. What she did, where [...]
Tags: Crime Scene, Evidence, Finger Printing, Forensics, Identification, Investigations Division, Lesley Ann Pickavance, Police, UK, Unsolved Homicide, VictimIf you are promoting stolen merchandize make sure the picture does not give you away! Manchester Police couldn’t have wished for better proof of Stephen Taylor’s guilt. After coming into contact with stolen watches worth £4,000, Taylor draped them over his hand and took a high quality photo with his camera phone. But the image [...]
Tags: Evidence, Finger Printing, Forensics, UKPrime Minister David Cameron of Britain offered an extraordinary apology for the 1972 killings of unarmed demonstrators by British troops in Northern Ireland, saying that a long-awaited investigation had left no doubt that the “Bloody Sunday” shootings were “both unjustified and unjustifiable.” “On behalf of our country, I am deeply sorry,” Mr. Cameron said in [...]
Tags: 1972, Bloody Sunday, David Cameron, IRA, Northern Ireland, UKArchaeologists believe that they may have found the world’s best-preserved gladiator cemetery after noticing animal bite marks and combat injuries on some of the 80, mainly headless, Roman skeletons unearthed at a site in the city of York in northern England. “At present our lead theory is that many of these skeletons are those of [...]
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