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What you are about to read are from Real-Life events. These stories do go into very explicit detail of murder and how police and forensic scientists solve such crimes.
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It was one of Scotland Yards most shocking cases. Six brutal murders, which only came to light during a robbery investigation.
George Brett was a hard man. A well-known East End haulage contractor, he was fond of a fight. On Saturday 4 January 1975, he walked into a church hall in Goodmayes in Essex, accompanied by his 10-year old son Terry Neither was to come out alive.
The old church hall had long been converted for light industrial use. One half was a soft toy business, while an engineering company specialising in underwater equipment occupied the other.
Brett had been lured to the side by a man he knew as Mr Jennings. There was the possibility of some business for his haulage firm, and his son had come along for the ride. The floor of the hall was completely covered in childrens teddy bears, and racks around the wall contained diving equipment. The only other occupant of the building was a very big man, bent over a work bench.
Jennings sat Brett down on the only chair and gave the boy a teddy bear to hold. Before any more could be said, the man at the bench raised a silenced Sten sub-machine gun and shot Brett through the head. Brett fell, and the big man came closer to make certain of his kill with a second shot to the head.
Then he turned to the 10-year old, who was still clutching the teddy bear. Jennings grabbed the boy and held him tight, while the gunman moved round and coldly fired one more shot, into the side of Terrys head. He died instantly.
Contract killing
George Brett and his son had fallen foul of a pair of hitmen, who had been paid 1,800 to commit murder. To most people, the term hitman conjures up images of American gangster movies; they are considered a very un-British kind of criminal. But in the 1970s, Harry the Bandit McKenny and his partner John Childs set themselves up as contract killers.
Childs had posed as Mr Jennings in order to lure George Brett to his death. Harry McKenny went about their work with cold savagery, and disposed of the bodies of their victims with callous ingenuity.
Henry Jeremiah McKenny, also known as Big Harry or Big H, was a big man indeed. Six feet five inches in height and an athletic 17 stone, he was a feared and respected by his fellow villains. Respected for his ice-cool nerve on armed robberies, and feared because with his sledgehammer fists and easy attitude to violence, he was a man not to be crossed.
McKenny was not just a dumb thug. A qualified pilot, he had also trained and worked as a salvage driver. He had invented and patented a revolutionary new air pump, a design now used by professional frogman worldwide. But Big Harry could make better money from crime. Besides, he liked the life.
Through the 1960w and 1970s he had been involved in scored of robberies, lorry hijacks and warehouse breakins. He was well known to Scotland Yard as a hard and dangerous villain, and had served several jail terms.
How the police finally brought Big Harry to justice is a fascinating example of how the cracking of a seemingly unrelated case can suddenly lead detectives on the trail of even more serious crime.
Armed robbery
In June1979, a team of gunmen pounced as a security van was collecting money from a bank in the centre of the market town of Hartford. One robber grabbed grabbed a guard and he walked to his armoured Transit van. Pressing a gun to his back, he forced the other guard to let the villains on board. Then they coolly told the security men to continue on their collection rounds in Welwyn Garden City and Hatfield, threatening them with death if they raised the alarm or tried to escape.
Eventually, with more than half a million pounds on board, the robbers told the guards to stop. They were tied up, gagged and bundled into a cubicle of a public lavatory while the crooks sped off with sacks full of money.
But the robbers had made one small vital mistake. They had left the boiler suits they had worn for the robbery in the same lavatory. In one of the pockets, detectives found the numbered key to a BMW 320 car. Contacting BMW in Germany via Interpol, the Hertfordshire police were told that the car which that particular key fitted had been supplied to a garage in Essex. Further enquiries revealed that the BMW had been bought by Phillip Cohen, a wealthy East London greengrocer.
Murder 1: Teddy Bear Eve
McKennys first killing was for his own direct gain. He was meticulous in planning how the killing would be done and had already prepared a slaughterhouse in an East End flat, where the body could be taken to be dismembered without leaving a trace. To help in this grisly task McKenny had bought an electric meat mincer that had been advertised for 25 in Exchange and Mart.
The victim was to be toymaker Teddy Bear Eve. In 1974 McKenny and Terry Pinfold had been running a small business manufacturing diving equipment in a converted church hall in Haydon Road, Goodmayes, a district of Ilford. Renting a small unit in the same building was Eve. McKenny had noticed that Eve was making plenty of money out of manufacturing soft toys. He decided that if Eve were to die it would be simplicity itself to take over the enterprise.
One evening in August McKenny and a friend called John Childs stayed late in the workshop knowing Eve was set to return after everyone else had left. When Eve got back from the factory after making a delivery to a customer he had no idea he was about to die. He had cheerily expressed his surprise at seeing the two working so late when McKenny hit him over the head with a hammer. The two men rained blows on his head. To make sure he was dead, McKenny then strangled him with a piece of rope.
The two men then spent all night carefully removing all traces of the horror they had committed, even using sulphuric acid to dissolve the bloodstains. Then they loaded Eves corpse into the boot of a car and drove the few miles to Childs rented council flat in Dolphin House, Popular High Street.
When, after his arrest, Childs described what happened next, it left experienced detective Frank Cater feeling physically sick. Dumping the body in the room, which had been lined with plastic sheeting, McKenny had then sawn off one of the victims legs. He then decided to shift the body to the bath to finish the job. Calling Childs to watch, Big Harry took a razor-sharp butchers knife and, with only three swift cuts, severed the head from the body. McKenny then sweated for several hours cutting up the rest of the corpse, stopping now and then for a cup of tea.
Then the ghoulish pair hot a major snag. When they tried to put the bits through the mincer, it jammed. McKenny, the engineer, diagnosed the problem, realising that the domestic electricity supply was not enough to dive the motor. They would have to try something else. Childs took the mincer to bits, then went out and threw the parts in a canal.
Meanwhile McKenny toiled trying to flush bits of body down the lavatory. Eventually, they decided to burn the remains in the fire grate in the living room. After nearly two days all that was left was charred bone. This was ground up, mixed with the ashes and scattered from a car while driving along the A13.
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