COOPER, WILBERN: The Killer Within: Wilbern Cooper: The Ordinary Man TV -
He seems like an ordinary man but for over 13 years he’d kept a sinister secret. It was time for Wilbern Cooper to face the killer within. The Killer Within: Wilbern Cooper: The Ordinary Man, Sky Crime 2021
In the early hours of September 30th 1978, Farmington Hills police had received a call to a house on Middlebelt Road. There they found the body of resident David McKillop. He was just 22 years old … the victim of a peculiarly brutal attack. ibid.
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Did MI5, police and their media assets allow Copeland to plant his bombs, and cover up before, during and after? Larry O’Hara, Notes from the Borderland issue 3 Autumn 2000
This is the story of two terrifying weeks in London when a lone bomber held the City in the grip of terror. No-one knew where he’d strike next or why. Hundreds were maimed. Three people were killed. The police manhunt faced an enormous challenge. Real Crime [with Mark Austin] s6e9: Nailing the Nail Bomber, ITV 2007
It helped that Brixton had one of the UK’s highest concentrations of CCTV cameras. ibid.
24th April: Only six people needed treatment for minor injuries. An hour or two later and Brick Lane would have been heaving with people. ibid.
The police were now confident that the attacks were racially motivated. ibid.
30th April: ‘We’re talking six-inch nails, so you could see them protruding out of people’s arms, legs, faces, chests; I mean it could have been a hardware store. ibid.
This bomb was the most horrific: in the confined bar two people had been killed, but many more were critically injured. ibid.
April 1999: London in the UK was the centre of an unprecedented terror attack. A lone right-wing fanatic went on a one-man rampage killing three people and injuring hundreds. Crimes that Shook Britain s2e1: The London Nail Bombings, CI 2011
The make-shift bomb packed with nails and stuffed into a plastic box had been sat at Brixton Market for over thirty minutes. ibid.
The bomb had originally been placed at a bus-stop then moved three times before detonating outside the Iceland store. ibid.
Brick Lane: Almost to the hour, seven days on from Brixton, police were dealing with another terrorist attack. ibid.
The terrorist had struck a third time. The device tore through Soho causing the biggest devastation so far. ibid.
He freely discussed his reign of terror. ibid.
Copeland was adamant he acted alone. ibid.
I feel nothing ... I did what I had to do. David Copeland
I think perfectly British people have a right to ethnic cleanse. I couldn’t help it. I had to do it. David Copeland
Nail bomber David Copeland has failed in his bid to reduce his minimum jail term of 50 years.
Copeland was given six life sentences in June 2000 for three counts of murder and three counts of causing explosions in London in order to endanger life.
Copeland, 35, from Hampshire, admitted killing 3 and injuring 139 people.
Under new legislation, a High Court judge set a minimum term of 50 years and the Court of Appeal upheld that sentence on Tuesday. BBC online article 28th June 2011 ‘Nail bomber David Copeland loses sentence appeal’
In April 1999 during a 2-week rampage, 22-year-old David Copeland embarked on a murderous campaign to maim and kill on the streets of London. As the clock ticked, the body count rose. Killing Spree: London Nail Bomber s2e2, CI 2017
The bomb inside the black bag had been packed with hundreds of nails which had ripped through the small space … The bomb left to detonate inside the Admiral Duncan pub had been the third explosion in a series of similar blasts across London over the last two weeks. ibid.
After hours of trawling through recovered CCTV footage the blurred image of a potential suspect was discovered. ibid.
Copeland: MI5 were interfering, for some reason, with the police investigation and had been watching Copeland for some time … It took 12 days to get an image of Copeland out to the public … Crimewatch appeal: 20 April 1999 … The Crimewatch TV programme is linked to the motive … Dando was privy to sensitive information within the Brixton bombing investigation which was not aired on television … Richard D Hall, Kill Jill: The Dando Assassination Explained I II III IV, 2018
17th: Bomb 1; 20th Crimewatch appeal; 24th Bomb 2; 26th Dando murder; 29th Copeland photograph in press; 30th Bomb 3; 1st Copeland arrested. ibid.
Last year David Copeland caused explosions in Brixton, Brick Lane and Soho. He killed three people and he terrorised London. At his trial Copeland admitted he’d planted the bombs. But who inspired him to do it? Panorama: The Nailbomber, BBC 2000
And there was talk of starting a race war. Nail Bomber: Manhunt, right-wing infiltrator, Netflix 2021
A crack addict took the bomb out of the bag and nicked the bag. ibid. witness
79 people were injured including a child with a four-inch nail embedded in his skull. ibid.
We felt under-protected and over-policed. ibid. Brixon resident
We started to find [CCTV] images that might be the bomber. ibid. rozzer
We found Copeland’s name in a number of meetings, a number of events. ibid. Searchlight
I knew people would be killed. But I had to do it. ibid. Copeland
COPELAND, RAY & FAYE: Killer Trials TV - Crime Library online - Crime Stories TV -
At first glance sixty-nine-year-old great grandmother Faye Della Copeland seems a most unlikely criminal: November 1990 she takes the stand in a murder trial. Killer Trials s1e4: Deadly Harvest
That Ray and Faye Copeland have been killing drifters and that perhaps this list of names is a record of what they’ve done. ibid.
Five murders ... They decided early on to split the trials. ibid.
Faye Copeland goes to trial and pleads not guilty. ibid.
Guilty in the first degree. ibid.
Ray Copeland dies of natural causes while waiting execution. ibid.