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84-year-old Griffiths was discovered battered to death in his house at 7 Bridge Street on 4 May 1964. Local residents were urged by police two days later to search their gardens and footpaths for his missing wallet. [154] [155] May 1964: Anne Dunwell: Near Maltby, South Yorkshire
The Capital Punishment Amendment Act 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 24) received royal assent on 29 May 1868, putting an end to public executions for murder in the United Kingdom. [2] The act required that all prisoners sentenced to death for murder be executed within the walls of the prison in which they were being held, and that their bodies be ...
This is an incomplete list of unsolved known and presumed murders in the United Kingdom. It does not include any of the 3,000 or so unsolved murders that took place in Northern Ireland because of the Troubles or any IRA attacks that took place in England. For a list of IRA victims see the following pages: The Disappeared, List of Bombings During the Troubles (contains Loyalist bombings also ...
Capital punishment in the United Kingdom predates the formation of the UK, having been used in Britain and Ireland from ancient times until the second half of the 20th century. The last executions in the United Kingdom were by hanging , and took place in 1964; capital punishment for murder was suspended in 1965 and finally abolished in 1969 ...
She was 29 or 30 years old at the time. Ray's fiancé was arrested twice on suspicion of her murder, but neither arrest led to any charges. [11] [12] May 2000 Frank McPhee: Maryhill, Glasgow: McPhee, a 51-year-old gangster himself twice acquitted of murder, was shot by a sniper in a block of flats opposite his own as he returned home on 10 May ...
This is a list of major crimes in the United Kingdom and Crown dependencies that received significant media coverage and/or led to changes in legislation. Legally each deliberate and unlawful killing of a human being is murder ; [ 1 ] there is no crime of assassination or serial killing as such, for example.
He was found stabbed to death in his car in Beavers Open Space, Hounslow, on 30 January 1990. Events surrounding Gill's murder were reconstructed on Crimewatch in April 1990. [5] February 1990 Brian Fitzmaurice Liverpool: 48-year-old Fitzmaurice was stabbed to death with a stiletto knife at or near his home in Oxford Road, Huyton, on 3 February ...
Known as "Dr Death"; general practitioner who murdered patients placed in his care; only British doctor to be convicted of such charges. Convicted of 15 murders and responsible for the deaths of 218 patients identified by inquiry , but is believed to have killed around 250 people.