IMPROVEMENTS in forensic science over the years have led to some remarkable results in criminal investigations, but few more dramatic than in the case of former Hereford soldier Richard Simmons.
AS one of the best, and certainly most popular, press photographers in this newspaper’s long history, Jonathan Barry was used to going to funerals. But few who knew him could ever have imagined going to his. Yet there they were, as many as social distancing restrictions would allow, gathered inside and outside Wyre Forest Crematorium at Stourport on Severn on a winter’s day to say goodbye to a husband, father, relative, friend, work colleague and all round good bloke.
BELOVED former Worcester News picture editor Jonathan Barry has died aged 54 after battling cancer for the past few months.
IT ended as police hope every siege will end, with everything calm and no-one hurt. Especially as on a sunny spring morning in April, 1996 at the centre of it all was a four month old baby.
IT’S a bullet point that has long headed the police manual on how to solve a murder – first eliminate the person who finds the corpse. But, by any standards of human behaviour, Richard Graham was a very cool killer.
