Just re watched rise of the football soldiers 3... Also been watching some documentaries about the killing of the 3 blokes in the range rover.. Pat Tate, Tony Tucker, Craig Rolfe... Don't think we've ever gotten the truth...A bit like who shot Kennedy... Any old cases interest you? BTW..Pate Tate and Tucker seemed like complete utter ****ing fruit cases...
The Essex boys... The 2 big cases around here are Viv Graham’s, which went unresolved and Noddy Rice who was shot in the car park down Shields. Although, there’s a guy on the run for that. When Noddy was shot, my mate who lives in Holland with his Thai bird brought her over here for the very first time to meet his Mam and Dad, they went out to the beach for an ice cream as it was a nice day and she witnessed him get his head blown off. Unsurprisingly she’s never been back since
That is a name I've not heard of in a long time! I met him a couple of times when i was young - like 6 to 8. We're both from North Shields and he grew up in Highfield whilst I grew up in Rowlands Gill (Highfield is a part of RG). He was a generation older than me but my uncle was a bouncer and it was an odd (and pretty messed up) time to be a bouncer in and around Newcastle. I had no idea who he was but I was at my grans house (where my uncle lived at the time) and Viv just came around as my uncle had invited him (not sure what the true story was there but as far as I'm aware nothing sinister). He had a kid who was a similar age to me (can't recall exactly) but was not keen to play! I remember my dad having gentle "words" with my uncle afterwards as this will have been late 80's and he was already notorious in the area.
ps. As far as I am aware neither I nor my family played any part in his death (which occurred when i was 12). I do remember it though as it was over the Christmas holidays and my Uncle seemed to know about it before it was reported on the news - NO not because he was involved but as part of the similar groups of people he will have been told by a friend i guess. I wont claim i knew who he was at the time, it wasn't until years later that it came u in conversation with my parents that I'd met him.
It was the perfect crime. When it came to the murder of the former boxer / local hardman in his thirties who was shot dead in town on New Years Eve nobody was looking at the scrawny 12 year-old spending Christmas at his grans.
America has all the juicy cases, the extremely strange death of JonBenet Ramsey is a good read. Was it a botched kidnapping for an abusive family covering up an accidental death? Anything the Zodiac Killer did Oh and back to Britain the thing that got me into mysteries and the most famous ever - Jack the Ripper. Still the best murderer name ever
The murder of Linda Cook was committed in Portsmouth on 9 December 1986. The subsequent trial led to a miscarriage of justice when Michael Shirley, an 18-year-old Royal Navy sailor, was wrongly convicted of the crime and sentenced to life imprisonment.[1][2] In 1992 his case had been highlighted as one of 110 possible miscarriages of justice in a report presented to the Home Office by the National Association of Probation Officers and justice groups Liberty and Conviction.[3] His conviction was eventually quashed in 2003 by the Court of Appeal after the DNA profile extracted from semen samples recovered from the victim's body was proven not to be his.[4]
DNA testing is a complete game changer ... thank **** ... overturned some wrongful convictions and brought to book some evil scrotes that must have thought they were untouchable ...
Went to jail at 18 and released at 35. Good that he got out but I cannot imagine losing those years of my life.
Susie Lumplugh is the one I tend to think of when it comes to unsolved cases. Estate agent went on a viewing with Mr Kipper (don't go there @PISKIE ) and then disappeared. Her body has never been found iirc but she was declared as dead many years ago. It's a welcome relief (if not surprising) that more estate agents haven't suffered the same fate given how easy it would still be to do.
8 family members killed via petrol bombed house in Hudds 2002 Grew up with the convicted...chilled with him when he was released on bail...had the look of a guilty man..3 days later...never saw him again. I know his family very very well. They did it at 2am...CID we’re camped outside his house by 5am waiting to raid It was all over some pussy as per. So the murderers bird worked at McDonald’s as did a young lad who was amongst the murdered. The guy I knew was jealous...so decided to petrol bomb the house. Says he was only intending to scare him...ended up killing 8 including 5 kids from the age of about 14 to 6months I meet his brother now n again...don’t ask about the murderer though. Loadsa people stopped talking to the family because the mother was adamant that her lad was innocent. Yeah right.
Can i just go back to the OP. A lot of you lot live down south, same as i did at the time of the 3 blokes in the range rover. I just remember hearing on the news at the time, but obviously watched films about it now, and there seems several different angles or motives..Does anyone have any different views? Was it the cops? Was it the London gangsters? Was it someone else?
Knew a bloke from Manchester (loosely) who used to make explosives and home made rockets and pipe bombs as a hobby. He didn’t seem like a nutter, just obsessed with pyrotechnics. Anyway, the stupid **** confessed to me once that he made a parcel bomb with some hugely flammable sticky material (I don’t recall what it was) and left it outside a block of flats. Apparently some Asian woman went to see what it was and triggered it off and covered herself in this burning sticky ****e and ended up with massive burns and disfigurement. Thought he was bullshittng at the time, but looking back, he probably did do it. He never got caught and probably to this day that remains an unsolved crime.
