maybe he had no choice but to pass a certain law or be blackballed, or his family was being strong-armed, whatever the case I imagine the man finding his lucky way out, stating his unwillingness to concede to the authority by publicly emasculating his ability to choose wrong, simultaneously disarming the manipulation. A jury found that Monaghan, a manipulative and controlling gambling addict, obstructed the airways of his children in separate murders in January and August 2013. So that easy answer just can't happen. Lancashire Police review the deaths of both children after new information comes to light, and launch a double murder . By way of checking the National Registration Number upon the most recently issued ration books[24] against individuals registered at the local Food Office, investigators identified over two hundred men whose fingerprints had not yet been obtained. Having listened to the evidence in this trial, in short you are an exceptionally controlling, selfish and cruel man. The finest opening paragraph to a sports report that I ever read was written more than 20 years ago by Randall Butt, soccer writer for the Cambridge Evening News. i.e. Police warned her not to be with him and a court order was made banning contact between them. It was not until a review was carried out by Lancashire Police after further information came to light that Monaghan was arrested and bailed on suspicion of murder in January 2018. The National Press, always on the lookout for a good provincial story, picked up on it and it appeared in the very copy of the Daily Mirror that John Lennon had before him when he wrote " A Day in the Life". A man has been charged with murder and three others have been arrested aftera woman was found dead at a house in Blackburn on Saturday (March 4). I believe this lyric was intentionally mistranscribed in the production of "Sgt. . He moved to Lancashire in 1921 and became a watchmen. All the wars, killing, hate.. [10] Humphreys then returned to her breakfast duties before checking on the children in her care in Ward CH4, then CH3. BTW: the city has changed radically since my grandad's day (early 1900s), but I always enjoyed staying there with my aunt & cousins during my hols from Oxford U. [20] Furthermore, fibres from this suit proved to be a perfect match to fibres found upon the child's body, clothing, and the window ledge where her murderer had entered the hospital,[33] thus proving this to have been the suit Griffiths had been wearing on the night of the crime. Bill worked as a man, sat in pubs drinking and swearing before telling people that he had gone to have special procedure performed at a hospital to change gender. A mind describes a person's intellect or consciousness, and not the corporeal. Wikipedia says that the line "now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall" can be explained by the fact that there was one hole for every 26 people in Blackburn, Lancashire. [11], Nurse Humphreys made a quick search of the ward, desperately attempting to find June Anne, before alerting other staff to the fact a child was missing. Jordan Monaghan, 30, from Blackburn, was described by a judge as "an exceptionally controlling, selfish and cruel man". This set of fingerprints was declared by the head of the Lancashire Fingerprint Bureau to have belonged to the child's murderer. It reminded me of the song. He faked a suicide note, discovered apparently by chance falling out of a picture frame as he removed the couples favourite photo of themselves to place in her coffin. As a subscriber, you are shown 80% less display advertising when reading our articles. Ms Gray, the mother of the child victims, could be heard weeping in the public gallery as they were read out. This line is a fantastic example of John Lennon's song writing and sense of humour. Three more men aged 32 and 24 from Blackburn and aged 31 from Clitheroe were arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender and have since been released under investigation. We do have many problems, but gun crime and gang related turf wars aren't endemic in our "hole". Over the course of two months, over 40,000 sets of prints were taken from more than 35,000 homes without a match being found. Blackburn is the second safest major town in Lancashire, and is among the top 20 most dangerous overall out of Lancashire's 236 towns, villages, and cities. Typical of Bob from Liverpooltaking a swipe at Blackburn. The murder of June Anne Devaney is a British child murder which occurred on 15 May 1948 when a girl aged 3 years 11 months was abducted from her cot while an inpatient at Queen's Park Hospital in Blackburn, Lancashire. Much like the riddle "how much dirt is in a hole that is 1' x 1' x 1'? I now believe the pot holes theory. (Image: who-did-we-think-we-were.webnode.com). If Blackburn is typical then there are over two million holes in Britain's roads and 300 000 in London." Only two "dirty lines" in all of the Beatles' work? His fourth wife, Amy Victoria Burnett, died in May 1947, despite his best efforts and usual tricks of signing the death certificate himself, the authorities found that Victoria had been poisoned using morphine. And the 4,000 holes reference puzzled me even more. The council has recently secured additional funding of 1m to repair the roads. This taxi driver's account, if correct, suggests the murder of June Anne was. "Back in the USSR" is replete with sexual innuendo: "show me round the snow peaked mountains way down south // take me to your daddy's farm // let me hear your balalaikas ringing out // come and keep your comrade warm // I'm back in the USSROh let me tell you honey" is a thinly veiled and deliciously punned description of vigorous sexual intercourse. An illustration of Henry Starr found in the Lancashire Post. Date Of Execution: 19 Nov 1948", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murder_of_June_Anne_Devaney&oldid=1142219413, This page was last edited on 1 March 2023, at 04:30. He was a barber by trade and due to the heinous nature of his crime, and his profession, he became known as Blackburn's Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Lancashire. Blackburn The Blackburn child killer and rapist who changed criminal forensics forever More than 40,000 people had their fingerprints taken by police before they found the killer. Cambridge United had been thrashed by Blackburn Rovers in a second division match. Mystery is over. Pubs? He is due to appear at Blackburn Magistrates' Court. Following closing arguments delivered by both counsels, the jury retired to consider their verdict, although they would deliberate for just 23 minutes[20] before announcing they had reached their verdict. And the "lucky man" killed himself because he was bummed at getting a red light, another example of his dark humour. blackburn, lancashire murders. The murder of Ellen Thompson sent shockwaves through Bamber Bridge in 1922. We cant believe this has happened for a second time. So there you have it, I was there! The woman, who is believed to be a 19-year-old from Blackburn, was taken to hospital on Sunday but later died. Holt had shot his beloved and his plea of insanity at the trial was not held up by the judges. Both father and daughter survived long enough to talk to police before they died of their injuries. Together, the CPS and Lancashire police were able to build a strong case against him by ensuring all possible medical explanations for the deaths of the children could be discounted. "He blew his mind out in a car" The former soldier was hanged at Strangeways in 1920. John Chatwood, 26, of Walsh Street, Blackburn - guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to 14 years. [22], To both substantiate Griffiths' confession, and to garner further evidence, investigators went to his house to conduct a thorough search. Officers have charged 30-year-old Anthony Stinson, of Queen Victoria Street, Blackburn, with murder. He faked a suicide note to deflect attention from his latest crime. The consequences were the snuffing out of the lives of two very young children and a young woman., Speaking of Ruby, the judge added: Her life had barely started and you extinguished it.. His name was/is William Campbell. he blew his mind out in a car; he didn't notice that the lights had changed: The lost local prisons and gaols of Lancashire, Remembrance Day 2019: The Lancashire lads who lost their lives and their stories, DWP demands Universal Credit mum repays 8,600 but court rules in her favour. [38], Just weeks prior to the execution of Peter Griffiths, all the fingerprint records obtained from individuals who had been in the vicinity of Blackburn between 14 and 15 May were publicly destroyed in a mass pulping exercise at a local papermill. It was John Lennon's idea to write this song by combining ideas taken from the newspapers. Date of imprint from date of execution, August 14, 1876 -- Capital Punishment UK site via WWW, viewed January 8, 2008. It all relates to the line 'I read the news today, oh boy'. While the complex investigation was going on, Monaghan began a toxic relationship with mother-of-one Evie Adams, 23, who had suffered chronic abuse before becoming a foster child aged 12. blackburn, lancashire murders. ", My guess is that John would be laughing if he could somehow read this argument today. The consequences were the snuffing out of the lives of two very young children and a young woman.. There was a pub on every street corner so 4000 pubs in Blackburn is VERY possible. A ruthless triple murderer who smothered his two young children and then killed his new partner with a drug overdose has been given three life sentences. Type ornaments. Horror doctors, poisonous spinsters, wife killers and more. I think you're right about it referring to the silly newspaper stories when councillors go and find useless information out (when is someone going to write a song about the cost to replace the M6 - I seem to recall the council asking someone that a few years ago!). He stated that, based on his observations of Griffiths throughout his incarceration, Griffiths was sane when he had committed the crime. The doctor committed suicide before he could be brought in by the police. [1] John wanted to highlight the last laugh. The attack happened on 27 November last year and had been fuelled by a feud between two families. But - I always remember hearing that the phrase "now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall" was a jab at critics claims that the Stones were more popular than the Beatles because they sold more tickets at their Albert Hall concert. John Lennon. How many holes does it take to fill anything? Griffiths then claimed to have spoken with a man in a parked car, whom he had asked to light his (Griffiths') cigarette. I was reading the news today and thought, Oh boy!! While alone in a cubicle in the changing rooms he smothered the child, the jury heard. Actually it was a direct quote from a recently discovered obscure Scottish bard, "For thou's an old sin, black bairn, lankish ere. Those who continue to kill their wives are known as Bluebeards, after the 15th Century French fairytale. [37] This opinion was voiced by Dr. Alaistair Robertson Grant, who stated for the defence that Griffiths was displaying the early signs of schizophrenia (a condition for which he had treated Griffiths' father some thirty years previously when he had been hospitalised with the condition). Me and Laura were just getting our life back together after losing Ruby. He would hand himself in to Burnley police station admitting to the crime and telling officers: "I don't know what made me do it.". Henry Starr stabbed his wife Mary so much and so ferociously that the surgeon's examining her mangled corpse could fit his fist through one of the wounds. A call came in to us on Saturday reporting an assault in the Mill Hill area and we found Charlottes body inside the address on Primrose Terrace a short time later.