Not far from yesterday’s Beeley Moor walk is Eastmoor, where the Pottery Cottage murders took place in 1977.
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| The Glasgow Herald April 28th 1977 |
Four shots were fired by police marksmen at an escaped rapist, William Hughes, before he stopped a frenzied axe attack on his hostage Mrs Gill Moran, and collapsed dead an inquest was told yesterday.
The shootings occurred after a car chase through Derbyshire and Cheshire, which ended when Hughes crashed at a police roadblock.
The Chesterfield inquest was on Hughes who escaped while being taken from Leicester Prison to Chesterfield Court. And on Richard Moran aged 36, his daughter, Sarah, and Mrs Moran’s parents, Mr Arthur Minton, aged 72, and Mrs Amy Minton, aged 70.
The four members of the family were found by police in their home at Pottery Cottage, Eastmoor, where they had been killed by Hughes…
…Hughes suddenly cried, “Your time is up” and raised an axe above his head. Inspector Pell said he fired at Hughes’s heat [sic] but Hughes began to attack Mrs Moran. Two more shots did not stop Hughes. Detective Constable Nicholls then fired one shot and Hughes collapsed.
The jury returned unanimous verdicts of murder in the case of the Morans and the Mintons, and justifiable homicide in the case of Hughes.
So given the tragic circumstances, as good a result as could have been expected – Billy Hughes shot dead. Had he survived he could still be alive today as capital punishment was long gone.
Yet
Moors murderer Ian Brady is still alive, the man and his grotesque crimes still festering on in the public memory. In my view this is a worse outcome than in the Hughes case. How can that be?
I think there are cases where certain crimes are so appalling that they must be given a decent burial. I know the arguments, we all know them, but there are cases where the only thing to do is consign them to the past.
One cannot do that for surviving friends and relatives, but the crime itself can consigned to the dismal history of human wickedness. If that means burying the perpetrator then so be it.
Source:
http://akhaart.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-pottery-cottage-murders.html
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