HAMER, MICHAEL: Jo Frost on Britain’s Killer Kids TV -
At 7 p.m. on March 1st 2006 police and volunteers in Bury, Greater Manchester, began searching for a missing 11-year-old … He had been bludgeoned and stabbed to death: the killer was 14-year-old Michael Hamer, a pupil at the same school. Jo Frost on Britain’s Killer Kids s1e4: Michael Hamer, CI 2017
Sentenced to a minimum of 12 years for the murder of Joe Geeling. ibid.
Michael had brutally murdered Joe and hidden his body nearby in Whitehead Park. But was this killing premeditated or was it a fit of rage? ibid.
HAMILTON, ADAM: Forensics: Catching the Killer TV -
Detectives on the hunt for a vicious murderer … ‘She [Karen Doubleday] was found at 8.30 a.m. by a man walking his dog … Her clothing had been partially removed … A lot of stamp marks on the face … She had been strangled.’ Forensics: Catching the Killer s3e5, rozzer, Sky Crime 2024
To trace the killer of the 41-year-old shop assistant … She had suffered a savage beating. ibid.
Detectives traced Karen’s movements on the day before her body was found … ‘Karen had been out on the Friday night … with her boyfriend … Adam Hamilton.’ ibid. rozzer
‘There was an obvious dirt stain on one of the knees [jeans].’ ibid.
A pollen and soil fingerprint of the soil where Karen was found. ibid.
HAMILTON, JOHN: True Crime with Aphrodite Jones TV - Real Choice online -
A prominent doctor and his high society wife ... A controversial media practice until one day their home becomes a bloodbath. What turned this heavenly couple’s Valentine’s Day into a nightmare from hell? … The murder of Oklahoma socialite Susan Hamilton. True Crime with Aphrodite Jones s3e6: Love to Death, ID 2013
There was extreme brutality. ibid.
There had been threats to burn down his clinic. There was a lot of rage toward the Hamiltons. ibid.
On this day, Valentine’s Day, in 2001, abortionist John Baxter Hamilton bludgeoned his wife, Susan, to death in their Oklahoma home. He was sentenced to life without parole. Mrs Hamilton, 55, had worked as a physician’s assistant at her husband’s abortion facility, Oklahoma Women’s Clinic. Real Choice online profile
HAMILTON, THOMAS: Crimes that Shook Britain TV - ITV News - The Guardian - World in Action TV - Return to Dunblane with Lorraine Kelly TV -
On the morning of March 13th 1996 the city of Dunblane in Scotland was changed for ever. Sixteen children and their teacher were brutally shot and murdered at Dunblane primary school before the perpetrator turned the gun on himself. Crimes that Shook Britain s2e3: The Dunblane Massacre
Thomas Hamilton stormed into a local primary school and opened fire. ibid.
Hamilton fired indiscriminately at other pupils and staff. ibid.
Hamilton’s conduct with boys in his scout group had seriously been called into question. ibid.
A change in [firearms] regulations was finally introduced. ibid
In three appalling minutes today in the small city of Dunblane in central Scotland sixteen children were murdered. A former scout leader with a grudge walked into their primary school gymnasium with four hand guns and without warning opened fire. ITV News at Ten report
Name: Thomas Hamilton. Age: Forty-three. In July 1973 he became a scout leader but was thrown out in March ’74 for his behaviour with young boys at a camp. ibid.
The small Scottish town of Dunblane was wracked with grief and horror last night as details emerged of the killer who had lived in their midst until yesterday, when he shot dead 16 small children and a teacher in three minutes of carnage in a primary school gym.
Thomas Hamilton, aged 43, a disgraced former Scout master whose behaviour had attracted the attention of the police, turned one of his four guns on himself after killing or injuring all but one of a class of 29 five and six year-olds at Dunblane primary school, near Stirling. The Guardian 14th March 1996 ‘Sixteen children killed in Dunblane massacre’
In ten minutes last Wednesday the two worlds [children & guns] of Thomas Hamilton collided and left Dunblane with a terrible loss. World in Action: Why Dunblane, ITV 1996
Dunblane had seen one of the worst mass murders in British history of 16 children and their teacher; 10 survivors still lie in hospital. ibid.
An unhealthy obsession with young boys. ibid.
He found new ways of gathering young boys around him. ibid.
Boys of nine and ten started making allegations about him. ibid.
A huge network of clubs … only boys under 14 were welcome. ibid.
On 13th March 1996 sixteen young children and their teacher were shot dead at Dunblane Primary School. Return to Dunblane with Lorraine Kelly, ITV 2021, caption
Devastatingly, a gunman had opened fire in a Primary 1 class of 28 5-and-6-year-old pupils and 3 staff … The killer had shot 105 bullets before turning the gun on himself. 12 children and 3 staff lay injured which 16 children and their teacher lay dead. ibid.
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HANCOCK, RHYS: Meet, Marry, Murder TV -
New Year’s Day 2020: A peaceful village, a couple resolved to enjoy the New Year. But duty teacher Helen Hancock and her lover Martin Griffiths simply don’t know the danger that they are in from Helen’s former husband. Meet, Marry, Murder s2e10, Netflix 2022
Had jealousy driven a respected headteacher to kill? ibid.
One of those problems was Rhys’s infidelity. ibid.
HANRATTY, JAMES [viz Miscarriages of Justice: Hanratty, James]: Great Crimes & Trials TV - Michael Mansfield QC - Duncan Campbell - Greg Swift - Paul Foot - BBC News TV - John & Oko Lennon - James Hanratty's father - Tamsin Allen - Horizon TV - Fred Dinenage TV - James Hanratty - Roger Mann - Valerie Storie - Hanratty: The Whole Truth TV - Hanratty: The Mystery of Deadman's Hill TV -
They didn’t see a man come up to their Morris Minor. The first they knew was when he tapped on the driver’s window. A gun was thrust in. ‘This is a hold-up,’ he said and got into the back seat. He said that his name was Jim and he was on the run. Great Crimes & Trials s2e14: The A-6 Murder, BBC 1994
He tied Valerie up, and told Gregsten to pass over a bag from the front. Gregsten may have tried to throw it at him, and the man fired two shots in the side and back of Gregsten’s head killing him instantly. ibid.
He assaulted her and she had the one glimpse at his face in the lights of a passing car ... He fired two volleys of shot at her which knocked her to the ground. She pretended to be dead, and heard him get in the car and drive off. ibid.
On 31st August she gave the police a new description of her attacker. Now she said he had staring icy-blue eyes. ibid.
She picked out Hanratty, and he was immediately arrested. ibid.
She impressed the court with her certainty in identifying Hanratty although she had seen the rapist’s face for only a moment. ibid.
Hanratty was sentenced to death. ibid.
90,000 people signed the petition reflecting a widespread feeling that identifications based on identity parades were unsafe, and that hanging was horrifically final. ibid.
The material that provided the foundation for the conviction and led to the execution was in fact fatally flawed ... in the sense that there was extensive and inexcusable non-disclosure. What happened was a distortion of the trial process, which was in large measure due to the actions of the senior police officer in the case.
Detective Superintendent Acott personally failed to disclose highly relevant documentation in key areas and, in addition, he misled the court and jury in his evidence relating to these key areas. Finally ... he fabricated evidence relating to [Hanratty’s] interviews. Michael Mansfield QC, Court of Appeal
Vital evidence which could have led to the acquittal of James Hanratty, executed for the A6 murder in 1962, was suppressed at the time of his trial, it emerged yesterday.
One of the most celebrated alleged miscarriage of justice cases was yesterday referred back to the Court of Appeal as the dead man’s lawyers, family and campaign supporters expressed astonishment at the extent of evidence which has only now been disclosed.