GPS watch connects killer to murder in 2015

GPS watch connects killer to murder in 2015

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Halb

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53,012 posts

183 months

Wednesday 16th January 2019
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-4...

gunman killed two ex-crooks. THe article doesn't mention, but just seen it on the news. CCTV connected the killer to the 2018 death, and then thanks to his watch (a pic was shown of him in the Morrison's Manchester 10k wearing the watch. biggrin ) the police found that it put him at the scene of a death in 2015


mods, I meant watch but typed phone, can you change?

kev1974

4,029 posts

129 months

Thursday 17th January 2019
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From what I have read elsewhere the sports tracking app didn't record his being at the murder site on the actual date of the murder, as presumably he had the sense to leave the device at home that day. What it had recorded was his visit to the same place some weeks or months earlier when he was scoping out the location. Unlucky!

anonymous-user

54 months

Thursday 17th January 2019
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I get the impression they had him bang to rights early on but couldn’t get the crucial link until they checked the watch and had him making the recce.

That report made an interesting read for the judge’s remarks and the bit about him putting the frighteners on his accomplice in court.

eek

272BHP

5,058 posts

236 months

Thursday 17th January 2019
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You have to wonder about the competence of these contract killers.

Surely not leaving any trace would be in Hitman 101?

eldar

21,742 posts

196 months

Thursday 17th January 2019
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272BHP said:
You have to wonder about the competence of these contract killers.

Surely not leaving any trace would be in Hitman 101?
I suppose the smart ones don’t leave any sign of the killing in the first place.

Halb

Original Poster:

53,012 posts

183 months

Thursday 17th January 2019
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Yeah, they're not exactly Mr Shush

Ilovejapcrap

3,281 posts

112 months

Friday 18th January 2019
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Brooking10 said:
I get the impression they had him bang to rights early on but couldn’t get the crucial link until they checked the watch and had him making the recce.

That report made an interesting read for the judge’s remarks and the bit about him putting the frighteners on his accomplice in court.

eek
What report ? Did not see it in one linked

anonymous-user

54 months

Friday 18th January 2019
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Ilovejapcrap said:
Brooking10 said:
I get the impression they had him bang to rights early on but couldn’t get the crucial link until they checked the watch and had him making the recce.

That report made an interesting read for the judge’s remarks and the bit about him putting the frighteners on his accomplice in court.

eek
What report ? Did not see it in one linked
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-46902706

anonymous-user

54 months

Friday 18th January 2019
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272BHP said:
You have to wonder about the competence of these contract killers.

Surely not leaving any trace would be in Hitman 101?
The link wasn't of the murder but of the recon he performed earlier along with the other party who helped him recon the second murder.

The guy shot someone (second murder) twice in the back and then twice to the head as he lay dying, that is ruthless.

Surely if it is a gangland murder then you want it to be bloody to send a message?

Also I believe witnesses reported, in both cases, the "hitman" using a bicycle.

Freakuk

3,145 posts

151 months

Friday 18th January 2019
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Trial has been going on for months, I work in Liverpool and every morning and evening the police have been closing the dock road as the police escort the crims to the courts, full blues and two's.

It was an interesting case, and when all the sirens started up around here I took an interest.