BBC - Great Crimes and Trials Series 3 Set 2 (1995) Part 5 Browne and Kennedy and Other Police Killers

Stabbings, shootings, genocide, torture, abduction, robbery, serial killing and mass suicide are just a few of the horrific crimes explored in Great Crimes and Trials. True stories carefully researched and reconstructed with actual archive footage. Cases which have become almost legendary in the annals of crime and detection. Serial killers, gangsters, assassins and war criminals - Great Crimes and Trials sheds light on crimes that shocked the world, bringing back memories of some of the most notorious cases of the twentieth century. The murders of John Lennon and presidential candidate Robert Kennedy, the unsolved Zodiac murders and the treasonous crimes of Lord Haw-Haw are all covered here in exacting detail, alongside other shocking stories of murder and mayhem. From the violent mob rule of the thirties to the fairly recent phenomenon of the serial killer, the motives, behavior patterns and killing techniques of some of the world's most evil felons are explored. Their detection, capture and trials are examined to give a complete picture of how crine and justice have evolved through the twentieth century. Narrated by Robert Powell, Great Crimes and Trials combines new and archive interviews to reconstruct each story, analysing the individual and his motive, explaining how the crime was committed and showing breakthroughs in investigations alongside details of the trial. With its researchers gaining unprecedented access to picture libraries and over 250,000 hours of archive footage, these are the definitive accounts of these appalling murders.

Part 5 Browne and Kennedy and Other Police Killers

Two criminals were trapped by a village 'bobby' and decided to shoot him dead. The detection of the pair led to both going to the gallows. On his way home from duty, police constable George Gutteridge was passed by a speeding car. Ever diligent in his duty, he waved down the speeding car in order to write them a ticket. Four hours later, Gutteridge was found dead, in a pool of blood, apparently in the process of writing the ticket. He had been shot four times in the face, two of them once in each eye. The brutal killing of PC Gutteridge shocked the nation and set off a manhunt, with Scotland Yard soon on the case. The subsequent trial and conviction of the killers, Frederick Browne and William 'Pat' Kennedy, marked the first time in British history that the then-new science of forensic ballistics was used to secure a conviction. PC Gutteridge was not the first British policeman to be killed in the line of duty, nor would be he be the last.

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