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James Hanratty (4 October 1936 – 4 April 1962), also known as the A6 Murderer, was a British criminal who was one of the final eight people in the UK to be executed before capital punishment was effectively abolished. [1] He was hanged at Bedford Jail on 4 April 1962, after being convicted of the murder of scientist Michael Gregsten, aged 36 ...
30 Δεκ 2010 · Hanratty was hanged on April 4, 1962, for what became known as the "A6 Murder" after a road in Bedfordshire by the side of which 36-year-old scientist Michael Gregsten was shot dead. His...
30 Δεκ 2010 · Valerie Storie was raped, shot five times and left for dead. She survived, but was paralysed from the waist down. Hanratty, from north London, was arrested, tried and convicted of murder.
The police maintain Hanratty was a vicious killer - and say they now have DNA evidence to prove it. After years of doubt, it appears that modern science holds the key to a 40 year old case.
17 Οκτ 2000 · James Hanratty went to the gallows protesting his innocence, and asking his family to clear his name. He was hanged on April 4, 1962 and was one of the last people to die before the...
Hanratty was a known petty criminal with a turbulent past, who in his younger years had been described as a ‘mental defective’ and a ‘potential psychopath’. But he vehemently denied being the A6 Murderer, claiming to have been in the Welsh coastal town of Rhyl on the night of the abduction.
2 Απρ 2022 · James Hanratty, also known as the A6 Murderer, was hanged at Bedford Prison for the murder of Michael Gregsten and the rape and shooting of Valerie Storie. In Buckinghamshire in August 1961 a gunman hijacked Gregsten's car, where Storie was a passenger and forced him to drive along the A6 until they reached Deadman's Hill between Bedford and Luton.
