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The same evening the plaque was stolen from the bridge; West Yorkshire Police began an investigation, which treated the theft as a hate crime. [42] [43] The plaque was replaced but was vandalised the same night; another, temporary, plaque was installed. [44] A "spate of racist graffiti" appeared on the bridge and at the civic trust offices. [45]
A second suspect, aged 68, was arrested by West Yorkshire Police on suspicion of murder on 25 April 2017 in Bradford. [ 28 ] Speaking on Channel 4 News on the 30th anniversary of Rimer's murder in 2024, new lead detective James Entwistle said that there was a "distinct possibility" that the killer was one of the people already known to ...
Its main competitor was the Yorkshire Evening News which folded in 1963. In 1925 the Yorkshire Evening Post produced a separate edition for South Yorkshire printed simultaneously in Doncaster. It was closed in 1970 and became the Doncaster Evening Post until it folded in 1983. In 1967 United Newspapers Ltd merged with Yorkshire Conservative ...
The injuries to MacDonald's head and body, plus the location of the attack, rapidly linked her murder to a series committed by an individual known to police and the press as the Yorkshire Ripper, [29] who had attacked a minimum of seven women in West Yorkshire over the previous two years—four fatally. [30]
The list omits war-time deaths by enemy fire, such as the many police officers killed by air raids during the Second World War. [1] The list also omits the more than 300 officers of the former Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) killed in paramilitary assassinations or attacks during The Troubles. [2]
Barry Peter Prudom (born Barry Edwards; 18 October 1944 – 4 July 1982), dubbed the Phantom of the Forest, was an English electrician and multiple murderer who became the subject of what was, at the time, the largest manhunt in British history.
In 1934 he quit his job at the Yorkshire Post and became a freelance. Leaving the city behind, he rented a cottage in Clapham, which he renamed Fellside, and continued to work for a number of newspapers, including the Yorkshire Post, Yorkshire Evening Post, Leeds Mercury and Lancashire Evening Post, on a freelance basis. He reckoned if he could ...
Paul Leighton Sykes is serving a life sentence for stabbing Michael Gallagher to death in a sudden knife attack in Lupset, Wakefield, in June 2004. In 2008, 25-year-old Michael Sharp was given a minimum 27-year sentence at Leeds Crown Court for murdering 38-year-old David Ward, a former police officer, following a botched armed robbery at his ...