DESCRIPTION:
The sun was barely starting to go down on the Summer evening in 1961 when Michael Gregsten and Valerie Storie pulled off the road into the cornfield at Dorney Reach, Buckinghamshire. They frequently went parking there — or “trysting” as was often said at the time.
Sometimes others had the same idea, but on this particular Tuesday evening it was just them and the faint sound of cars passing along the road behind. They sat in the grey Morris Minor for half an hour, smoking and chatting without the faintest idea that anyone else was there. It was the tapping on the drivers side window that startled them (Part 1 of 2).
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REFERENCES:
LEGAL/APPEALS
[1971] EWCA Civ J0512-3
[2000] EWCA Crim J1017-24
R. v. James Hanratty (deceased) [2002] EWCA Crim 1141: Judgement
http://netk.net.au/UK/HanrattyJudgment.asp
https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1963/aug/02/james-hanratty-trial
THE TELEGRAPH
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/05/13/valerie-storie--obituary/
THE INDEPENDENT
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/the-hanratty-case-im-dying-tomorrow-please-clear-my-name-1285433.html
THE GUARDIAN
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/may/13/ukcrime.comment
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1962/feb/19/ukcrime
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1962/apr/05/ukcrime
https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/mar/30/law.uk
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/apr/05/1
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/may/11/ukcrime1
THE IRISH TIMES
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/case-of-man-hanged-in-1962-referred-to-court-of-appeal-1.168410
BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2001/a6murdertrans.shtml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/29/newsid_2530000/2530969.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/23/newsid_3013000/3013236.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/22/newsid_2669000/2669115.stm
THE FREE LIBRARY
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/HANGED+HANRATTY+WAS+INNOCENT+SAYS+NEW+YARD+INQUIRY.-a061158693
WALES ONLINE:
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/possibility-of-dna-contamination-examined-1978881
Newspapers.com archived articles utilised:
https://www.newspapers.com/image/259685084/?terms=Hanratty%2Bguilty
https://www.newspapers.com/image/259685668/?terms=A6%2Bhanratty
BLOGS:
http://jadepas2.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_29.html
https://blackpoolcrime.wordpress.com/2014/10/28/james-hanratty-john-lennon-and-the-stevonia-fish-and-chip-shop/
https://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_murderer_whose_reputation_john_lennon_worked_to_restore
CRIME AND INVESTIGATION:
https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/crime-files/james-hanratty-the-a6-murder
https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/crime-files/james-hanratty-the-a6-murder/trial
BOOK / EXCEPTS/ SPECIALS:
Power of Persuasion: Essays by a Very Public Lawyer by Louis Blom-Cooper (Chapter 16; James Hanratty, a Vindicatory View.)
Excerpt from the article in The Spectator ‘The unproven guilt ’ by Louis Blom-Cooper
http://www.worldlibrary.in/articles/a6_murder
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BBC Horizon - The A6 Murder-James Hanratty
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