Conflicts In The Work Place / Attacks On Co-Workers

Conflicts in the workplace are not unusual. Co-workers don’t always see eye to eye, especially when their occupation is the only thing they have in common. On rare occasions, minor disputes can escalate to violent assaults. According to the Health & Safety Executive and the Office for National Statistics, almost 300,000 assaults were committed in the workplace between 2019 and 2020. While the majority of those attacks were committed by customers or strangers, 3% were committed by colleagues…

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The Body In Wyken Basin / Linda Edwards / Noel John Dooley

On the morning of May 15th, 1979, three boys were playing by the Wyken Basin when they noticed something floating in the water. Curious, they went to take a closer look. They approached the reeds on the water's edge, and the object came into focus. It dawned on them that it was a body. Panicked by their discovery, the boys ran to the first adult they could find. They told him what they had seen in the water and in turn he hurriedly contacted the police…

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Murder Inspired by Reservoir Dogs / Jacqueline Kirk

Saturday, April 18th, 1998. In the early hours of the morning, two police officers were dispatched to the scene of a disturbance at a car park near Dolphin Square and Oxford Street in Weston-Super-Mare. PC Clive Golding-Ellis and PC Robert Deville were expecting a standard weekend drunken brawl. They saw something much different and considerably more disturbing. A woman was lying on the ground. Her skin blistered and distorted with extensive burns that covered her head and upper body. As the officers urgently called for an ambulance, they spoke to a man standing nearby, drinking from a can of lager. He was drunk and told the officers, "I tried to put her out. The flames kept going back again”…

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A Knock At The Door / Dr Adam Towler / Chanz Maximen

The doctor managed to get inside, slamming the door behind him and securing the lock. He grabbed his iPhone and attempted to call for help. He tried to use facial recognition to unlock the device, but the blood on his face rendered him unrecognisable. The doctor struggled as blood also covered the phone, making it difficult to use the touch screen…

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The Joker Of Nottingham / Damien Hammond

Nottinghamshire has a rich history of stories and legends. It's the home of Robin Hood, an outlaw and a rebel who stole from the rich to give to the poor. Robin Hood and his band of merry men lived in Sherwood Forest, hiding from the Sheriff of Nottingham and rebelling against the tyranny of a cruel prince. As Nottingham's famed hero, Robin Hood’s story is known worldwide. But, for every hero, there is a villain. A villain is defined in the dictionary as a cruelly malicious person involved in or devoted to wickedness or crime. Villains are thought to be an integral part of the plot of a story. Their role is to oppose the hero, but sometimes there are villains with no agenda or purpose…

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Killing For The Sake Of Killing / Colin Ash-Smith

From the start, it was clear to detectives that this was a murder inquiry. Officers were immediately dispatched to search the area for a possible suspect, maybe someone in bloody clothes or acting suspiciously. Onlookers had seen a man fleeing the scene. They noted he was wearing a light beige waist-length jacket. But despite a quick response from the Kent constabulary, asking all potential witnesses near the scene if they had seen anything, officers drew a blank…

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