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Champion jigsaw puzzler helps police murder enquiry

A champion jigsaw puzzler is helping Hertfordshire police help put together a dismembered murder victim.

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Posted: Jan 18th, 2010
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Newspaper editor campaigns to eliminate blurred photos of murder victims

public urged to carry a decent portrait at all timesAn increase in the number of fuzzy photos of murder victims has prompted a newspaper editor to appeal for members of the public to carry a decent quality photograph in case they die in a newsworthy way. When Jan Harvey was brutally killed by a gang in Moss Side, Manchester, her partner Alan Tebbings was naturally devastated. But what made it worse for Alan was that he realised he didn’t have a good photograph of Jan to give to the local newspaper.

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Posted: Nov 10th, 2009
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Dog walkers threaten to keep bodies of murder victims

I don't do this for money...Angry dog-walkers are threatening to hang on to the bodies of murder victims unless the police act more quickly to return them. A spokesman for the Ramblers Association said their members were fed up with having to hassle the police to get the corpses back after officers had finished with their forensic inquiries.

‘We found the bodies, and the police are abusing our goodwill by holding on to them for an unacceptable length of time,’ he said. ‘Sometimes we don’t get them back at all, and when we do get them back they are often not in the condition that we found them in.’

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Posted: Jun 17th, 2009
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