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Police Commissioner Newman steps down (1987)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on crime rates in London as Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Kenneth Newman prepares to step down after 5 years in charge to be replaced by Peter Imbert. He comments on the issues he singled out...
Hindley admits to murders of 2 missing children (1987)
- Genre
- Interview
Reverend Peter Timms, who is close to Moors murderer Myra Hindley, says she will be pleased for the parents of Pauline Reade and Keith Bennett. Follows her confession to their murders and leading police to...
Metropolitan Police in crisis? (1987)
- Genre
- Interview
Home Office minister Douglas Hogg says he does not believe that Commissioner Sir Kenneth Newman has a crisis on his hands as the Metropolitan Police’s spending and resources have increased. Follows Newman...
Moors murder victim body discovered (1987)
- Genre
- Press conference
Detective Chief Superintendent Peter Topping answers reporters’ questions on the discovery of Pauline Reade’s body on Saddleworth Moor. Reade was a victim of the Moors murderers Myra Hindley and Ian...
Brady assists police to locate bodies (1987)
- Genre
- News report
Report on the search for the final victim of the Moors murderers, Keith Bennett, following the discovery of the body of Pauline Reade on Wednesday. Ian Brady has today been on leave from Park Lane mental...
Manslaughter verdict for man who killed child in mistaken revenge attack (1987)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
In a revenge attack on the man his wife accused of rape Alan West set fire to the wrong house killing six-year-old Paul Butler. Report on his acquittal of murder but being found guilty of manslaughter on the...
Moors body discovered (1987)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on the Moors murderer Myra Hindley confessing to the murder and providing the police with new information on two of the victims, Pauline Reade and Keith Bennett, leading to the discovery of Reade’s...
Lavender Hill police station firebombed (1987)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Chief Superintendent John O’Connor about the damage caused after a fire bomb was thrown into Lavender Hill police station in London. Female interviewer not identified.
Armed robbery foiled with two shot dead (1987)
- Genre
- Press conference
Scotland Yard’s Assistant Commissioner, Brian Worth, explains to press and fields questions on how armed police from the Regional Crime Squad and Tactical Firearms Unit foiled the armed robbery of an...
Eyewitness account of police foiling armed robbery (1987)
- Genre
- Interview; Press conference
Female eyewitness (not identified but prob. Mary Pecover) gives press interview on the police foiling an armed robbery at an abattoir in South London (police had been lying in wait at the abattoir where two...