murder is very rarely reported in our local rag, testament to the fact that on the whole it's a pretty rare thing to happen to anybody, however a story which has gotten some national coverage, the murder of a landlady in norfolk - sad for all the usual reasons, but sad also because it's quite hard to believe that somebody you have vague memories of would end up dead and murdered in a freezer, seemingly at the hands of her partner.
(the story was reported here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/u ... 075849.ece)
so, is murder is as rare as everybody says? do you know anybody who met an untimely end? and how?
Did you know anybody who was murdered?
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Two, sadly.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4559699.stm
Stephen worked at Downtown Radio when I worked there and was less a "bouncer" as described in the story as a club night organiser. No one's ever been caught for his murder.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8262975.stm
A lovely lady who lived next door to my auntie for years. In that case, at least there is some comfort in knowing that justice has been done.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4559699.stm
Stephen worked at Downtown Radio when I worked there and was less a "bouncer" as described in the story as a club night organiser. No one's ever been caught for his murder.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8262975.stm
A lovely lady who lived next door to my auntie for years. In that case, at least there is some comfort in knowing that justice has been done.
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Gavin Scott
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I'm afraid in the early 90s I knew three men who were murdered. One I knew well and was fond of, the other two not so much, but they were acquaintances.
Haven't thought of it for a long time. Not a happy time, really.
Haven't thought of it for a long time. Not a happy time, really.
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Nick Harvey
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'Er indoors and I are very good friends with a guy (and his second wife) whose (first) wife was murdered.
That's as close as we get.
That's as close as we get.
Yes 1 person in a high profile case a few years back.
Horrible.
Horrible.
No one I've personally known has been murdered, but I used to see Rosemary Nelson regularly at church (in the days when I went) and a college friend of one of my cousins was one of those killed in the Omagh bomb.