Telegraph thatcher biography

21st December, 2015 in True Crime

On a dark autumnal night in 1962 three young men arrived at the Tooting Co-op building in a grey Austin Cambridge.

Telegraph thatcher biography

Two of the men, brandishing guns, held up the cashier, while the other one, also armed with a Luger pistol kept lookout. A Co-op worker named Dennis Hurden happened to be passing by the cashier’s office and was told to keep still and not move; he continued walking and the gunman panicked and shot him in the face.

He died instantly.

The masked robbers left with just £500. As they made their getaway over a bridge and down to where their car was parked they were noticed acting suspiciously and the number plate was taken down by a member of the public.

It was not long before one of the men, Phillip Kelly, was tracked down and arrested.

Because a night watchman had thought he saw four men in the car the police were convinced that there were another three men involved.

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