Pottery Cottage: the crime that shook Britain: The Peak District Killings that shocked Britain - Softcover

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January 1977. England’s Peak District. A violent fugitive attacks his prison escort and escapes over the wintry moors.He stumbles on an isolated cottage and takes a family hostage.What transpires will send a shiver down the spine of Britain.Award-winning investigative journalist and author, Alan Hurndall has spent the best part of a decade piecing together the events surrounding Pottery Cottage and offers this hour by hour account of the trauma and the controversial police operation as they close in on their man.Using the Freedom of Information Act, he gained access to previously confidential police files, witness statements and official reports.He says: “I was a young reporter on The Star, Sheffield when this story broke, and it has always held a fascination for me. It has a place in criminal and social history in the sense that many felt the Permissive Society was to blame.’Pottery Cottage is a dark, psychological thriller that happens to be true. It will shock and anger in equal measure. It might even make you weep. But it will certainly provoke you into asking searching questions about yourself and how you might act in such a crisis. What would YOU have done?

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