THE owner of a Hampshire merchant builders' business allowed detectives investigating the murder of a devout churchgoing pensioner to use his premises as a temporary police station to trap her killer.
It was the bloodiest moment of
the Second World War for one
Hampshire village – but it
wasn’t the Nazis who brought
blood to the streets of
Kingsclere. PETER LAW
reports on the secret massacre
hushed up by the Allies.
Sandra Court was found strangled in a
water-filled ditch in 1986 ¨C but police
are still determined to catch her killer
and believe an anonymous letter-writer
could hold the key. JOHN HOSKINS
tells the story of an enduring mystery.
In what was described as a curious case of theft, Jane Hamilton appeared before Winchester magistrates in 1907, charged with stealing jewellery and household effects from Elizabeth Friend who had been lodging with her.
HE was one of the most experienced officers in the Hampshire force and his testimony carried considerable weight at the trial of a socially inept couple facing cruelty charges.
A KEY weapon in the fight against
community crime - or merely a badge of
honour for yobs? Following the
controversial introduction of Anti Social
Behaviour Orders (Asbos) in England and
Wales in 1999, 10,000 have been issued.
There was nothing to link the brutal killing of
spinster Frances Pressley to 30-year-old George
McDonald Williams – until he walked into a
police station and confessed.
