DESCRIPTION:
A teenager is found bound, tortured and murdered in his own home. A suspect is apprehended and brought to trial. But could a family member really be responsible, and was the right person behind bars?…
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This episode was researched and written by Eileen Macfarlane
Script editing, additional writing, illustrations and production direction by Rosanna Fitton
Narration, editing, and production direction by Benjamin Fitton
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Things Gone Wrong by Moments
The Last by Wild Wonder
Wilderness by Wild Wonder
Vanished by Wicked Cinema
Aqueducts by Falls
Inception by Falls
In Reverse by Wild Wonder
High Above by Wild Wonder
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REFERENCES:
POLICE FILES obtained from National Archives in Kew
NEWSPAPER ARCHIVES
The Guardian - Apr 12, 1985
Daily Telegraph - Sep 13, 1985
Daily Telegraph - Aug 24, 2005
Daily Telegraph - Dec 10, 1986
Daily Telegraph - Fed 26, 1992
The Guardian - Dec 17, 1986
The Guardian - Dec 17, 1986
Daily Telegraph - Dec 7, 1988
The Guardian - Nov 24, 1992
The Guardian - Sept 12, 1985
Daily Telegraph - Dec 9, 1986
Liverpool Echo, Feb 23, 1979
Daily Mirror, Feb 24, 1979
Coventry Evening Telegraph, Feb 28, 1979
Liverpool Echo, Feb 28, 1979
Liverpool Echo, July 2, 1979
Liverpool Echo, July 3, 1979
Liverpool Echo, July 4, 1979
Liverpool Echo, July 6, 1979
Newcastle Journal, July 6, 1979
Liverpool Echo, July 12, 1979
Liverpool Echo, July 26, 1979
Reading Evening Post, July 26, 1979
Daily Express, July 11, 1979
Daily Express, July 12 1979
Daily Express, July 26, 1979
NEWSBANK
Times, The (London, England), December 9, 1986
Times, The (London, England), December 10, 1986
Times, The (London, England), December 17, 1986
Daily Mirror, The: Web Edition Articles (London, England), March 23, 2016
DIGITAL ARTICLES
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lancashire-35871897
https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1983/nov/15/margaret-livesey
https://www.insidejustice.co.uk/news/rough-justice-changed-my-life/26
https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/story-behind-lancashires-most-notorious-15514747
http://netk.net.au/Whitton/TBV30.asp
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tortured-teen-alan-liveseys-murder-7611848
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3504832/Police-open-investigation-tortured-14-year-old-died-hands-mother-amid-claims-wrongly-convicted.html
https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2016-03-23/police-review-murder-of-lancashire-teenager-alan-livesey
http://www.roughjusticetv.co.uk/liveseybg.htm
https://www.wigantoday.net/news/people/former-wigan-policeman-who-became-top-detective-mourned-923161
https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/true-story-behind-battle-bamber-16526991
https://www.iosrjournals.org/iosr-jdms/papers/Vol16-issue10/Version-10/G1610102635.pdf
BOOKS
‘Murder in Lancashire: Notorious Cases and How They Were Solved’ by Ian Hunter