Hampshire's True Crime Files

Shooting and suicide after father’s funeral

Shooting and suicide after father’s funeral

8:33am Thursday 29th July 2010

THE drama was unlike no other witnessed on the Isle of Wight.

Wife's affair drives man to kill guitarist

Sue Theron

11:23am Thursday 27th May 2010

HE was likened to a volcano rumbling under the surface – and when the crust cracked, the eruption was uncontrollable.

Rising star singer arrested in city

4:20pm Thursday 25th March 2010

He had a career that promised so much, yet ultimately fulfilled so little.

Comedian brings smile to judges face

12:30pm Friday 27th November 2009

HE earned his living as a comedian but this was no laughing matter.

Knifeman attacked by Bill's best pal

Knifeman attacked by Bill's best pal

12:33pm Thursday 26th November 2009

SHE was unwanted and unloved. But Bill Matthews gave her a home and Cindy repaid his master’s kindness by protecting him against a knife-wielding robber The 27-year-old transport company foreman was threatened as he supervised the loading and unloading of cauliflowers at his firm’s yard in Endle Street and Albert Road, Southampton, when a stranger lurking in a doorway approached and asked for a light for his cigarette.

Pensioner killed in drunken attack

12:29pm Thursday 26th November 2009

HE went for a jog – and committed a murder.

Who killed our Ricky?

Ricky Hayward

5:03pm Tuesday 20th October 2009

Twenty years after one of Hampshire’s most notorious unsolved murders, his family are desperate for answers

Ship’s chef badly burnt by steward

Queen Mary

3:10pm Thursday 1st October 2009

HE had suffered burns to much of his body but the victim and assailant had again become the best of pals.

‘Charlatan’ Peter the Doc

3:01pm Thursday 1st October 2009

A JUDGE hardly minced his words when he sentenced a man known as Peter the Doc.

Who killed Georgina?

MURDER SCENE: Paul Barton, of Hampshire police, outside Fig Tree Cottage, the home of murder victim Georgina Edmonds.

9:27am Thursday 2nd July 2009

IT should have been a day of celebration with her family.



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