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The pair had claimed that they were in Cornwall to buy cannabis. [34] The prosecution claimed that the murders had been the result of a robbery gone wrong. [35] Robert and Lee Firkins were found guilty of murder at Exeter Crown Court. [36] They admitted to the unrelated offences but denied the killings. [37] They were both given life sentences ...
Devon and Cornwall Police. "Murder Appeal: We need your help to catch Kate Bushell's killer". Devon & Cornwall Police. Archived from the original on 17 February 2022; DevonLive (15 October 2018). "Kate Bushell, Lyn Bryant and Helen Fleet - how three horrific murders could be linked". Archived from the original on 12 May 2021
In August 2000, Lee Ford, an unemployed builder and roofer, murdered his wife, Lesley, and his four stepchildren at their home in Carnkie, a village near Redruth, Cornwall, and then attempted to conceal the bodies. After telling neighbours, and the children's school, that Lesley had left and taken the children with her, Ford was arrested in ...
John Trehenban (pronounced TREM-on) (1650–1671), of St Columb Major in Cornwall, United Kingdom, was a murderer sentenced to imprisonment in a cage on Castle An Dinas downs and starved to death. The murder of the two young girls is recorded in the Parish Register.
Dennis John Whitty (1941 – 17 December 1963) was, along with his accomplice Russell Pascoe, the third-to-last prisoner to be executed by hanging in a British prison. Whitty had been convicted for his part in the murder of 64-year-old Cornish farmer William Garfield Rowe on 14 August 1963.
Robert Black, a serial killer convicted in 1994 for similar crimes involving the abduction and murder of young girls, was questioned by Devon and Cornwall Police in connection with the Tate case. During the course of his job as a long distance delivery van driver in the 1970s, Black had made deliveries in the Exeter area.
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Annie was charged with the murder of her sister, Lydia Maria Everard aged 52, and her neighbour, Alice Maud Thomas (known as "Minnie") aged 47. She was not charged with the murder of her aunt (despite arsenic in her body) as there was little evidence, other than odd coincidence. [4] The trial took place in Cornwall Assizes in Bodmin in