Recent content by Hewitt

Peter Sutcliffe may well have killed others but he's also carrying the can for at least one other killer. West Yorkshire Police had a terrible reputation for incompetence, corruption and fitting-up easy targets at the time and tried to suppress evidence in order to get Sutcliffe off on an...

Field was already abusing his younger foster-brothers while a resident at Lynwode Manor, Lincolnshire. I suspect the attack on the young girl (during the same period) was simply opportunistic.

I respectfully disagree. Neither of those killers were caught because of the basic nature of Forensic Science in their respective eras, their victims were strangers to them and then both suddenly stopped, meaning new leads were not forthcoming. The JBR case on the other hand was a one-off...

The fact that it wasn't the right man only demonstrates why cutting the police slack in this way is never acceptable. It's not out of common decency that they make such mistakes either; it's because the police have become utterly performance-driven and will try and charge the first person...

I know a lot of local Police Forces dumped information when they digitized their records - I was recently using the FOI request service while researching the possibility of their being more Yorkshire Ripper victims (Tinslop is a possible IMO) and the lack of available information from the 60's...