[Murder Cases listed by perpetrator. Case may be listed by victim if unsolved or with multiple perpetrators]
Hancock, Rhys p1 - Hanratty, James p1 - Hansen, Robert p3 - Hardacre, Michael p3 - Hardman, Matthew p3 - Hardy, Anthony p3 - Hardy, Trevor p4 - Harelson, Jack p5 - Harling, Stuart p6 - Harmon, Shelly p6 -
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 - The Guilty Innocent with Christopher Eccleston 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.
The dead man’s brother, Michael Hanratty, described as disgraceful the suppression of material which would have saved his brother’s life. His wife, Maureen Hanratty, said the family had been ‘put through hell’ because of the behaviour of the authorities.
The Criminal Cases Review Commission announced yesterday that the case of Hanratty, who was hanged for the murder of Michael Gregsten, has been referred back to the Court of Appeal. Duncan Campbell, Guardian Unlimited 30th March 1999
The family of James Hanratty – controversially hanged for the A6 murder 38 years ago – last night dismissed reports that new DNA evidence proved he was guilty.
Hanratty’s brother Michael, 61, said his family were unconcerned about the latest forensic results and added: ‘The new evidence stinks.’
Hanratty, 25, was found guilty in 1962 of shooting dead scientist Michael Gregsten in a layby on the A6 in Bedford.
He was then said to have raped Mr Gregsten’s mistress Valerie Storie and shot her five times, leaving her for dead.
She miraculously survived and Hanratty was hanged largely on the basis of her evidence. But his death has become one of Britain’s most notorious alleged miscarriages of justice ...
As part of its evidence for that appeal, the prosecution took advantage of the latest breakthroughs in DNA profiling to re-test exhibits which have been stored in Home Office vaults since Hanratty’s trial.
It was reported yesterday that the DNA profiles obtained earlier this year from fluid samples on a handkerchief wrapped around the murder weapon and on Miss Storie’s underwear match a sample taken from Michael Hanratty.
According to one report, a source close to the forensic tests said: ‘The DNA system narrows it to a one-in-a-billion match. In other words, there is now a one-in-a-billion chance that Hanratty was not the A6 killer.’ Greg Swift, Daily Express 20th July 2000
The criminal cases review commission referred the Hanratty case to the court of appeal last year with staggering new evidence that the case against Hanratty had been rigged. The commission was well aware of DNA evidence linking Hanratty to the crime and did not discount it. Nor did it rule out the possibility that exhibits on which the DNA tests were based – fragments of knickers and a handkerchief – could have been stored with material taken from Hanratty, and could have been contaminated. The commission concluded: ‘It is impossible to draw any firm conclusion as to the current evidential integrity of the exhibits of the cloth examples in this case. The known (and unknown) aspects of the history of those items must be weighed in the balance.’
The new evidence brought to us by the The Sun – that the DNA odds are a billion to one that Hanratty was guilty – does not alter the basic point, that if the exhibits tested were contaminated with items connected with Hanratty, the results are meaningless. Indeed, the greater the sensitivity of the tests, the greater the likelihood of their picking up a contaminant ...