The Criminal Justice System is Broken
Just what is going on in our courts? On twitter this week, I stumbled across a great site for those of us interested in true crime: ‘Court Stats’. One of the stats it shows is the number of Crown Court Rooms in England & Wales not sitting on any given day. Like me, I imagine […]
Gerry Tobin: A Pointless Murder
The four day Bulldog Bash generated profits of over one million pounds for the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club in 2007. The festival, which took place in mid-August, has been hosted at the Shakespeare County Raceway in the village of Long Marston, Warwickshire since the beginning. It started as a small gathering in 1987, but the […]
All Change
Following the tragic case of Nicola Bulley earlier this year, I suggest that major, high-profile police investigations will never be the same again. We can’t go back to how things were – the genie is well and truly out of the bottle. But does our police service, already reeling from almost daily criticism, realise this? […]
The Man in Black
It was September 1995 and in the UK the Spice Girls had just released their first single ‘Wannabee’. Alan Shearer had became the most expensive footballer with his £15million transfer from Blackburn to Newcastle and Prince Charles and Diana divorced after 15 years of marriage. In North Wales, John Henry Roberts, 56, was a retired […]
Can True Crime ever be Glamorous?
Many popular fictional TV shows like Breaking Bad or The Sopranos make crime appear exciting and engaging. A late night drunken act of violence outside a kebab show in your town doesn’t hold the same allure. But why do we glamourise some criminals who commit real crimes and feel what appears to be genuine affection […]
The Ponzi scheme – alive & well?
Although the business of separating people from their money has always been a popular one, in the UK this has reached whole new levels since the pension reforms giving people over 55 full access to their pension pots. For the fraudsters, billions of extra pounds were unlocked and firmly in play. Still, this is all […]
TYRONE BATES – A POINTLESS MURDER.
For those of us fascinated by true crime, we know that many lives are changed forever in a matter of seconds by one catastrophic action. Today, we take a detailed look at the strange case of Tyrone Bates who murdered his landlady, Stella Gleadall in 2007. This case is of particular interests as it seems […]