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	Murder
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	James Hanratty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The murder of Michael Gregsten and the rape of Valerie Storie occurred at Deadman's Hill on the A6, near the village of Ampthill, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom, on August 22, 1961.
		Hanratty initially put up a defence that he was in Liverpool on the day of the murder, but then, halfway through the trial changed his story, claiming in fact that he was in Rhyl in North Wales.
		Although the blood group of the murderer was the same as Hanratty's, it was a common blood type and half the population had the same type.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Hanratty (3307 words)

	A6 murder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The A6 murder is a crime which many believe led to a major miscarriage of justice.
		In August 1961 Michael Gregsten was shot, and his lover Valerie Storie was raped and shot in their car in a layby off the A6 between Luton and Bedford.
		In 1992, on the 30th anniversary of Hanratty's death, Foot claimed that Alphon, living then in a run-down hotel in the King's Cross district of London, was still confessing to the crime.
	www.encyclopedia-1.com /a/a6/a6_murder.html (214 words)

	A6. Who is A6? What is A6? Where is A6? Definition of A6. Meaning of A6.
		The A6 is a major road in England.
		South of Nottingham, the road is paralleled by the M1 motorway, and north of Manchester the M6 motorway approximates its course.
		The A6 is also a major road in Northern Ireland.
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/A6 (106 words)

	Guardian \| Hanratty may still be innocent, OK?
		When the police and prosecution applied some months ago for permission to exhume the body of James Hanratty, who was hanged in 1962 for the A6 murder, lawyers for the Hanratty family did not oppose the application, but denounced it as a pointless exercise.
		In particular, two witnesses who identified Hanratty as a man they had seen driving the murder car in London on the morning after the murder were discredited by the rather shocking fact that the murder car was nowhere near London at the time.
		Before they did so, they carried out DNA tests on some of the exhibits connected with the murder, including fragments of clothing worn at the time by Valerie Storie, who was in the car with Michael Gregsten when he was murdered and was herself shot by the killer and left for dead at the roadside.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4164735-103677,00.html (729 words)

	Hanratty: Verdict Incomprehensible
		Before he raped her, the murderer had said six fateful words which would be the nub of the prosecution case.
		Naturally a massive murder inquiry got underway within hours, but the police were hunting almost blind as it appeared to be a random killing by a man who had appeared and disappeared from and into nowhere.
		Even though she had not been at the scene of the murder, she told them she had an "intuition" that Hanratty was the murderer.
	www.scandals.org /articles/sr970527b.html (2415 words)

	wiki/A6 murder Definition / wiki/A6 murder Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The A6 murder was a murder Murder is both a legal and a moral term, that are not always coincident.
		Opponents of the death penalty argue that it is simply murder by the state.
		Gun cartridges from the murder weapon were found in a room which had been stayed in by a known alias The term alias may refer to— an assumed name, or pseudonym.
	www.elresearch.com /wiki/A6_murder (1349 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Horizon - The A6 Murder
		On 4 April 1962, James Hanratty was led from the condemned cell in Bedford Prison to the gallows.
		Hanratty, a convicted thief, was unable to provide a credible alibi for what he was doing at the time of the murder, and in court, came across as arrogant, devious and unreliable.
		The A6 Murder looks at the evidence that led to two weeks of deliberation for the judges, and discusses where both sides go from here.
	www.bbc.co.uk /science/horizon/2001/a6murder.shtml (632 words)

	A6 Murder 1961: Britain's first carjack murderer.
		Unlike in murder cases, a judge has the power to set the length of the sentence in manslaughter cases.
		As prosecutors must prove 'intent' in order to secure a murder conviction, Williams' claim that he "didn't set out to kill anyone" must be understood as his denial of 'intent' to kill Tim Robinson when he stabbed him.
		However, because Williams pleaded guilty to murder, with which the CPS charged him, he innocently accepted the CPS' version of what his 'intent' was when he stabbed Mr Robinson, specifically his intent was to kill him.
	blaqfair.co.uk /blaqfair/police/sikiru.htm (890 words)

	Printer Friendly Format - St. Albans Observer
		There followed a string of events culminating in one of the most talked-about crimes ever: In the case known as the A6 Murder, Michael Gregsten was shot dead, and Valerie Storie was raped and left for dead.
		It was not an easy case: an abduction in Berkshire; a murder and rape in Bedfordshire; the car abandoned in London; the murder weapon and ammunition found hidden on a bus.
		His case was moved to the Old Bailey, yet strangely switched to Bedford Assizes, where the jury were asked to consider the case against a man charged with murder in their own county.
	www.stalbansobserver.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=46146 (1427 words)

	AIAON \| ON THIS DAY \| 23 \| 1961: Couple found shot in A6 lay-by
		Police have launched a murder hunt after a man was found shot dead and his companion seriously wounded in a lay-by in Bedfordshire.
		The couple were found by a police patrol in the lay-by on the A6 at Deadman's Hill, near Luton, at 0645 BST today.
		Hanratty was convicted of the murder in 1962 and sentenced to death.
	amiabstractornot.highlyillogical.org /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/23/newsid_3013000/3013236.stm (536 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Horizon - The A6 Murder - Transcript
		Two other eye witnesses said they had seen Hanratty driving the murder car shortly before it was abandoned and so on October 14th 1961 James Hanratty was formally charged with the murder of Michael Gregsten and put on trial for his life.
		The murder weapon and ammunition found in the bus had been wrapped in a man's white handkerchief.
		My doubts stem solely from my, a very, very clear belief that this man did not commit this murder, so if the science is saying he did commit the murder I say well that clashes with my belief that he didn't commit the murder and there must be something wrong with the science.
	www.bbc.co.uk /science/horizon/2001/a6murdertrans.shtml (5294 words)

	Oliver Kamm: Assessing Paul Foot
		Foot's campaign to free the four men falsely convicted of the murder of Carl Bridgewater was the result of a relentless exposure of the flaws in the prosecution case.
		The case of James Hanratty and the A6 murder was not a miscarriage of justice: Hanratty was guilty as charged.
		That is the credo of the biblical creationist confronted with geological evidence for the age of the Earth.
	oliverkamm.typepad.com /blog/2004/07/paul_foots_lega.html (6287 words)

	Observer - Hua Hin, Cha-am and Paknampran
		THE INFAMOUS A6 MURDER was committed at Deadman's Hill, Bedfordshire on the night of 22-23 August 1961.
		The murder weapon turned up on a London bus and two cartridge cases fired from it were found in room 24 of the Vienna hotel, at Maida Vale in London where Alphon had stayed on 21-23 August.
		On 12 May 1967 Peter Alphon called a press conference in Paris and dramatically confessed to being the A6 murderer, stating that British Justice "should be dragged in the mud where it belongs".
	www.observergroup.net /ob78back/stories.htm (1481 words)

	True Crime book reviews
		Kelly's impassioned murder of his wife is quite a different kind of killing to the Whitechapel murders, so forget about Jack the Ripper and instead appreciate the book's well researched account of an otherwise unknown case.
		He was undone by an exploit to murder his partner and collect the insurance money, and was not averse to the cruel murder of his late partner's children before he suffered the fate he richly deserved.
		The murder and rape were not, as has been supposed, part of a planned crime which went wrong, but a crime of impulse, committed by a not very bright man, who was using a gun for the first time and suddenly found himself out of his depth.
	www.parmaq.com /truecrime/Books.htm (4042 words)

	The English hangmen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Charles Peace was a burglar and murderer whom Marwood hanged on the 25th of February 1879 at Armley Goal in Leeds.
		George Smith was the famous "Brides in the Bath" murderer whom Ellis hanged on the 13th of August 1915 at Maidstone prison.
		John Vickers became the first man to die for a murder committed under the provisions of the Homicide Act of 1957 when he was hanged at Durham on the 23rd of July 1957.
	www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk /hangmen.html (5728 words)

	A6
		A6 road The A6 is a major road in Cumbria.
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	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/a6.html (80 words)

	Hanratty deserved to die (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		It is a popular misconception that those behind the &#145;A6 Committee’ were solely driven by the entirely noble motive of trying to clear the name of a wrongly convicted man. While those were indeed the sole concerns of Hanratty’s father and brother, they were not in my view the only concerns of the committee.
		If Hanratty was innocent, then some plausible ‘alternative’ murderer had to be put forward, and Justice decided upon Peter Alphon, the man the police had originally suspected of the crime, but who had been cleared after three witnesses, including Valerie Storie, failed to identify him as the murderer.
		James Hanratty was convicted of murdering scientist Michael Gregsten on the A6 in Bedfordshire by shooting him twice in the head.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/680993/posts (2716 words)

	Murder on November 16th
		The two youths were returned to Leeds by train but a hostile crowd outside the main police station forced the police to hold the two in a suburban police station until they appeared for their remand hearing the following day.
		You come under the protection of the Children and Young Persons Act and because you are under the age of 18 you cannot suffer the supreme penalty of law.
		Perhaps his most controversial case was that of James Hanratty who was convicted of the A6 murder and hanged at Bedford prison on the 4th of April 1962.
	www.chrishobbs.com /murdernov16.htm (1600 words)

	Observer - Hua Hin and Cha-am Stories and articles.
		It had been a crime that symbolised the giddy age of boom and prohibition during the 'flapper era' of the 'Roaring Twenties.' Ruth Snyder and her former lover, Henry Judd Gray, were to be executed for the murder of Albert Snyder.
		This wretched creature before them was indeed the fun-loving Mrs Snyder who had assisted in the murder of her husband for financial gain.
		Even today, this most controversial of modern newspaper pictures stamps the Snyder-Gray murder case in public consciousness as one of the most sensational crimes to be committed in the USA.
	www.observergroup.net /ob106back/stories.htm (3538 words)

	IN THE COURT OF JUDICIAL MAGISTRATE NO
		The alleged cash amount given to all the five fake/false accused and others were dispersed through the A21 to A24, to their respective family members and thereby A21 to A24 facilitated the surrender of all such false accused.
		Further A6 Kathiravan has voluntarily given a confessional statement under section 164 (2) Cr.P.C. wherein he has disclosed the involvement of A1 to A5.
		Further a revolver belonging to A5 Appu @ Krishnasamy was recovered from the possession of A6 Kathiravan.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/nic/0034/chargesheet.htm (1807 words)

	Linda's comments on current cases.
		New technology has shown that he was indeed the murderer, and moreover has cleared the name of Peter Alphon, who, for those who believed Hanratty to be innocent, was the prime suspect.
		In the aftermath of the appalling murder of little Sandra Payne it is natural that there should be a public demand for the return of the death penalty.
		The murdered boy was hit in the back, close enough to receive the full force of the shot.
	www.parmaq.com /truecrime/comments.htm (967 words)

	INNOCENT - Fighting miscarriages of justice
		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.
		A petition protesting against the death sentence for murder that was put together in the wake of the case was signed by 90,000 people.
		What about the sightings on the morning of the murder of the murder car as far away as Matlock, which contradicted the evidence of identification witnesses, and were notified to the police at the time and not passed on to the defence?
	www.innocent.org.uk /cases/jameshanratty (6007 words)

	BBC News \| WALES \| Hanratty's seaside alibi
		James Hanratty had lied to police about his whereabouts on the night of the murder of Michael Gregsten, leaving himself exposed and tragically unable to reverse his fateful conviction.
		But Hanratty's change of story that he was in Rhyl on the night of 22 August 1961 - when Michael Gregsten was shot and Valerie Storie was raped - became a cornerstone of the family's appeal to clear his name in the High Court.
		Hanratty's claim that he was 250 miles away from the murder scene at a country lane on the A6 in Bedfordshire was dismissed during the trial as a lie.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/wales/1979514.stm (816 words)

	The Scotsman - UK - Hanratty conviction ‘fatally flawed’ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Forty years since Hanratty was hanged in Bedford Jail for the notorious A6 murder, a new appeal was launched to win a posthumous pardon.
		The QC dismissed new DNA evidence taken from Hanratty's exhumed body last year which appeared to pinpoint a two-and-a-half million to one certainty that the hanged man was the murderer, and said that there were 24 failings of non-disclosure by the Crown and the police affecting virtually every ground of the appeal.
		Hanratty was among the last to go to the gallows in Britain, aged 25, on 4 April, 1962, for the murder of scientist Michael Gregsten, who was shot dead on Deadman’s Hill, south of Bedford.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /uk.cfm?id=404842002 (517 words)

	British Criminology Conferences, Vol. 1 1998: True Crime (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Of the Moors murders one writer remarked, 'what was special about this case, especially sinister was that in the dock was a woman, a woman accused of killing children.
		The image of the offender as a monster is also built up by picking through the biographee's life and latching onto events which were not regarded as significant at the time, but in which, with hindsight, the writer is able to detect the seeds of the crimes.
		All of this is presented against the background of the knowledge of his conviction for the murders, and implies the existence of clear predictive signs of the murders that were to follow.
	www.britsoccrim.org /bccsp/vol01/VOL01_13.HTM (10857 words)

	Mirror.co.uk - News - All News Archive - PAUL FOOT: DEATH OF A MIRROR CAMPAIGNER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		In 1997, the High Court ruled the evidence was tainted and quashed the Hickeys' and Robinson's murder convictions.
		FOOT died convinced that James Hanratty's hanging for the murder of Michael Gregsten was a miscarriage of justice.
		His campaign to overturn the conviction was said to have blighted the lives of the late Mrs Gregsten and Valerie, who unequivocally identified Hanratty as her attacker.
	www.mirror.co.uk /news/allnews/tm_objectid=14442714&method=full&siteid=50143&headline=paul-foot--death-of-a-mirror-campaigner--he-cared-deeply-about-his-readers--and-used-the-power-of-his-p-name_page.html (924 words)

	New ruling is expected on Hanratty hanging
		In January, it was reported that the Home Office had concluded that he was innocent of the A6 murder and warranted a posthumous pardon.
		He was found guilty of murdering Michael Gregsten, a 36-year-old research scientist, and shooting and raping his girlfriend Valerie Storie, 22, leaving her paralysed.
		English, a teenager, was cleared earlier this year of the murder of a police sergeant by an accomplice while he was under arrest 100 yards away.
	telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1997/10/21/nhan21.html (601 words)

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