Members of Dorset Constabulary’s armed response team stood outside the conservatory of a large estate in Higher Langham near Gillingham.
After five months apart, Christine Collins is not convinced that the boy returned to her loving arms is her son…
Robert Morphet hadn’t seen his elderly neighbour in several days. He was concerned that 88-year-old Jack could have fallen
Officers from the Cheshire Constabulary stood guard at the rear of a property on Hylton Court in Ellesmere Port. An ominous white tent had been erected
Police Constable John Robert Chapman was on duty when he spotted an elderly farmer waving frantically. Henry Dobson was out of breath and barely able to stand as he finally blurted out to the approaching officer, “My wife! She’s dead. She’s murdered in the field”…
A quiet man in his 50s, leading a simple life of gardening and visits to the pub, is brutally murdered in his own home.
Held at gunpoint by an intruder, his family had been prisoners in their own home since the previous evening. For nearly twelve hours, they had listened as their captor spoke of the lives he had taken. When he finally slipped away in the morning, he left the captives to wrestle with his parting words: "I am going to die, but I will not be the only one..."
The car parked on Lurgan Avenue matched the description circulated to the police in London. PC William Waters reported the discovery from a nearby police box and