Serial killer could be responsible for pensioner murders

Yes, I love data.

Just one more wafer thin spreadsheet please.

you can send it to me@blackkalendar.nl

Cheers,

I see the second one is a list of all the people executed which I pretty much have but the main one is pretty interesting and should compliment that period nicely, cheers.

Cheers.

Looks extensive, but I know one thing for sure and thats that it will be a long time before I go through it with any momentum.

I have looked at one record:

690199 Bates Jean Millicent 18 F 21 5 05/09/1969 Cumbria 31 42 3 03/11/1969 5 5

And its not on the site. Clearly its going to have to be gone through, one row at a time, about 8,500 rows, at an average of 5 minutes each = 685 hours, at say 4 hours a day (spare time) = 171 days.

Is this from the HO reference you gave or is this someones work from that period? Whats the original sourse?

FOI requests are the biggest joke ever.

Essentially its a mechanism designed to prevent giving information out. All they have to do is cite 'personal information'.

I have a built in system for sending out emails requsting updates on cases and invariably they would refuse saying its personal information. In the past you could walk into a police station and ask if the death of someone was solved and they would have a think and give you an asnwer. Its common sense. I havnt tried too much as I dont want to antagonise the police, but I could sent out literally thousands of requests for progress on unsolved deaths over the last 20 years, especially last 10 years, and they dont say anything.

For example, 2015 death of Tania Abram, suffocated after a fall. Nothing in the newspapers, possibly not hmicide, but I suspect if I sent an email to Blackpool police, they would treat it under the FOI and then refuse to anser stating it was 'personal' information. Years ago I might expect a police person to be helpful and give me an asnser, such as it was considered not suspicious. You can see thi in the unsolved for around 2000, lots of Met FOI declaring unsolved cases, but if you request info, they refuse stating its personal.

www.unsolved-murders.co.uk/murder-content.php?key=377#browse

I tried for a few and gave up.

I sometimes track those MET cases down and sometimes they are proper murders and sometimes they are dubious cases such as a drugs overdose or something that was first thought suspicious and then not.

Seems to get a respnce from a FOI request you have to be a newspaper else you are not worthy of a responce.

The only FOI I have seen is someone asking what prisoners eat for christmas dinners. Whats the point of that?

FOI at TNA is similarly a joke. For example:

discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C13441863

THis has a Submit FOI Request next to it. But after 5 months they will let you know that you cant see it because of personal info. I might understand on that record as its not that old, but it is on all closed records, some going back past the 1940s. Theres no logic to it at all. I personally dont quibble to much on TNA documents that are closed as there are so many tat are open, but they are closing lots and lots that were open for some unknown reason.