In 2011, John Cooper was convicted of the murder of Peter and Gwenda Dixon in 1989. He was also found responsible for the murder of Richard and Helen Thomas in North Wales in December 1985 and was reconstructed on CWUK in 1986. He appeared on the TV show Bullseye in late May 1989 and comparison of his appearance on this show with the artists impression of the user of Peter Dixon’s cash card helped convict him. The man dubbed the game show killer because of his brazen TV appearance a short time before he committed a horrific double murder and three years after a previous similar crime received a justly deserved whole life tariff.
Stuart Kelly He also raped a 16 year old, sexually assaulted a 15 year old (both at gun point) in 1996. He had a history of crime including 30 robberies and assault. He’s definitely where he belongs!
He was a really nasty piece of work. The Real Crime documentary about him from several years ago was really difficult to watch. The Bullseye interludes certainly showed the "mask" and were a stark contrast.
I think CW reconstructions struck so many nerves because it was like watching mortality being played out and the inevitable demise. ‘Don’t have nightmares..’ sums it all up.
I wonder whether that was deliberate. Considering how the robber had been contacting the press about the case, perhaps it was an attempt to wind him up into getting in touch again and maybe providing a clue.
You never know, with all these unsolved murders, wouldn't it be good if a conviction came from someone who contacted the police after watching a reconstruction on Redcard74's uploads.
When Bullseye Cooper tried to withdraw 37 quid from the cashpoint, I'd've like to have seen Jim Bowen's face appear on the computer screen and say "37 pounds, ladies and gentleman - it'll take me the time it takes for John Bly to bore us all to death with Aladdin's Cave to count it out."
I'd been wanting to see the Dixon case. The reconstruction is probably one of the most chilling because it features an idyllic landscape and almost no violence yet it was such a horrific crime.
One of the greatest pieces of observational detection in history . What’s remarkable is that he was observed at the cash point before the person in the car knew there was a crime . Why would he even take note of that’s person but he did fair play
@@zeddeka lol what bullshit ! Where is evidence or source ? I remember the 80s when you could leave your front door open and no one would enter your house. You obviously aren't old enough.
People were much, much heavier drinkers back then than they are now. It's believed to be one of the reasons why Britain had some of the highest rates of violent crime in Europe back then.
John Cooper, the serial killer who killed the couple in Wales, famously appeared as a contestant on Bullseye. It's astonishing how many serial killers over the years have had no qualms about appearing on TV before they got caught. David Mulcahey appeared on a BBC programme talking about his love of skating and another welsh serial killer, Peter Moore, regularly apoeared on local TV and radio. Testament perhaps to their Narcissistic view of reality.
In the Crimewatch file episode of the David Paterson shooting with the armed robbery, the security guard tells the robber to piss off when he says give me the money. I was expecting the same thing in this reconstruction!! A lot different. Horrible crime. That poor man had his life ruined by some scumbag who was too lazy to get a proper job or a legal way of making money. Bloody hell, sell cannabis even if he needed money that badly!! Instead of shooting people in the head and scaring others with a shotgun. Wimp is a perfect way to describe him.
Its ironic you say that as david dint have a real job or legit money either, he was in fact stealing from the government by busking hense it being illegal .
Hello my lovely CW friends please don’t have nightmares to think I was only three when this was on now I’m 32 scary it’s a shame they decided to axe the show after all those years Xx
It's been back on for years, but it's shown in the mornings. Naturally, it's very different now, because the 1980s were 40 years ago. Literally last century.
I stayed at the Norton house hotel in Edinburgh, very nice hotel with a spa. The woman who served our breakfast said "that's lovely" a lot. It is a running gag in our family ever since.
First ever episode of Crimewatch that I watched and I still remember the Dixon case vividly. Trying to locate a couple of other reconstructions - one of a man wearing an old fashioned top hat & monicle combo (or something along those lines) where the killer was seen running off attempting to hide a bloodstained white t-shirt. The other took place on a farm where the murderer was witnessed from afar running up & stabbing the victim who was driving a tractor or something. Any ideas?
@@redcard7475 Thanks redcard, look forward to seeing it. Any ideas about the other one? Think it might have been a London murder and the victim was a rotund gent w/neat facial hair & old fashioned garb - suited w/a bowler hat (rather than a top hat), umbrella, monicle/ small glasses etc. May have been a homphobic attack & may possibly have been a Crimewatch file done on it as well IIRC. This would have been from an early-90's episode.
I am afraid he did not fully recover. Because there was another ce about them catching the shooter in 1994. There he was disabled and in care still. So unfair.
Bizarrely, the previous episode she wore it in (April 86 - just double-checked it) featured the murders of Richard and Helen Thomas who, like the Dixon, were killed by John Cooper.
There making a drama about him right now. He was a pig of a man who was nasty to his wife and kids especially his son who he would point a gun at and make him think he was going to kill from an young age
I wonder if this programme is the reason why when I was looking at buying a Ford Sierra for my first car my Dad told me "Get used to being pulled over".
The David Patterson case is so typical of the 80s. There was so much unemployment in the regions that people flocked to London. Many people ended up on the streets with nowhere to live, and "cardboard city" on the south bank was a real problem. Sadly, a lot of kids who ran away like that ended up in the clutches of paedophiles. Places like Piccadilly Circus, Kings Cross, Euston and Charing Cross were notorious for it.
I watched the John Cooper Crimewatch Redux last wk! I actually remember seeing him on Bullseye! Jim Bowen should've just given him half a packet of crisps & BFH!
The David Patterson appeal is interesting. Officer in charge is clearly goading the gunman, probably in the hope it will provoke him into calling in. Hope they caught the sod.
No doubt-likely he consulted a profiler after getting the cuttings & would have known he was a neurotic, egomaniac who would find it difficult to accept being insulted in such a public manner & even if he didn't contact the police to shout at them likely would have flown into a rage & been stroppy around family or friends for the next day or two.
Bill Mellish did like up to rub people up the wrong way. He got into trouble when in a documentary he smirked about how Stephen Lawrence's mate ran away.
I love watching these back. Saw a different one the other day and a man was charged 91 pence for a pint and a ham baguette! Times were good then, could go on a night out, get pissed, get a munch on way home and still wake up with change out a fiver. Happy daze.
And people got paid an awful lot less, so it wasn't as cheap as it looks. £5 in 1989 money is the equivalent of £17 in 2024 money. I remember as late as 1994, one of my mates had a job in House of Fraser and they were paying him £1 an hour (!!)
It’s called in the line of fire or something to that extent,also he was caught because one of his “friends” grassed on him probably getting some kind of payment for that as well. Fucking snitches are low but when they claim to be your mate that’s just scummy if you ask me.
15.06 Elizabeth and john shiel, it's a possibility they have changed their hair colours since these photo's were taken ? ... more like '' it's a possibility they have had complete face lifts'' with a 100 grand that;s why they stole it .... wouldn't you if you looked like that at 44 and 37 !!
Thats 2 men that what ended up being shot 1 killed in a single episode, if anything we can take from this its not to be a have a go hero. Crime watch will only paint you out as a helpless victim.
I live in Milford haven so know all about this case,he didn’t kill Richard n Helen Thomas in north wales but in scoveston about two miles from me,he was convicted of raping a schoolgirl,he also won 90k on spot the ball before all this happened.
You shouldn't have got pissed so much in your youth mate. A number of people had already talked about that in the comments, and of course Google is always your friend.
People from Germany knowing and having watched Aktenzeichen XY ... ungelöst! (the German version of Crimewatch) may remember the Dixon murder as it was shown in Germany in December 1st's episode of Aktenzeichen XY ... ungelöst!
@@treasurehunteruk9718 Because the Dixon case was shown in Germany as well since there was an appeal for a German (or Austrian or Swiss) student and it may have been that he was watching the German edition, that is why I mentionned it.
09:03 don't get why someone driving by a cash machine in a car remembers who was using it. Most people probably pass by dozens of cash machines being used on a daily basis.
Cash machines were relatively new then, and Pembroke is a tiny town in the Welsh countryside so would stick out a lot more than the same situation today
This is location of campsite from which Dixons disappeared: www.google.com/maps/place/51%C2%B045'55.1%22N+5%C2%B007'00.5%22W/@51.765305,-5.1181143,345m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x0:0x0!7e2!8m2!3d51.7653035!4d-5.1168176
This is why nobody believes in the bbc now..as they don't make quality like this anymore it's all style over substance now..unlike the polar opposite here...I rest my case
Well first of all its not 1989 anymore. Crime is at its lowest ever levels now, thank god. Things like securicor van raids, serial killers, burglary and child abduction don't happen anything like as often as they did then. They can't make a programme like this now because crime like this largely doesn't happen, and on the odd occasion it does, it's solved much more quickly. Crimewatch has been back in for years, in the mornings. But it's very different because crime is very different now.
@@jenniferkelly5897 That a) it's likely a very different area than it was back then, given how much Glasgow has changed; b) you can find historic crimes in pretty much any place in the country you want; c) Who cares where you stay? Are you some kind of VIP or something? Why did you feel the need to tell us where you stay? Nobody cares. This isn't Facebook with all the histrionic attention seeking that goes on there.
Wow, Donald Kell was a brave man, but possibly the dumbest person ever on Crimewatch. Donald Kell He was just a retired plumber with a reputation for complaining, speaking out, voicing his views, and intervening. But he was also a man of remarkable courage. Standing at the entrance of his block of flats, Harold House in Finchley Road, north London, Donald Kell, 66, saw two armed men wearing balaclava masks robbing a Brinks-Mat security lorry parked outside the Swiss Cottage branch of Lloyds Bank. The robbers had a security guard on the ground. Without a thought for his own safety Donald Kell acted characteristically. He waded into the robbers, hitting them right left and centre with some wooden planks he had just bought. One of the robbers, irritated by the intervention, told him to get lost and fired a warning shot. Mr. Kell took no notice, continuing to lash out. The robber fired again, and this time the bullet went through Mr. Kells chest. The killers made their getaway with just £500 in one-pound coins. Mr. Kell was taken to hospital, where he died an hour later. The Metropolitan Police say the killing, on Wednesday, July 26th, 1989, remains a high priority on their unsolved murder list.
Danny Wood He also killed Richard and Helen Thomas in 1985 and was given 4 life sentences but not until 2011. He was also convicted of the rape of a 16 year old and the sexual assault of a 15 year old carried out in 1996.
Well... I remember buying hiking boots around that time- mine cost 20ish and they were about the cheapest I could find. £40 for a brand name would be about right.
When time comes that money is yours - who will be there to tackle robbery, if everyone is supposed to stay away? Are you suggesting robbers should feel safe and do their business without watching their backs?
I certainly wouldn’t encourage people to have a go if the robbers have guns. You don’t know if they’re loaded or whether the robbers are prepared to use them. Some are and some aren’t. I wouldn’t take that chance.
In 2011, John Cooper was convicted of the murder of Peter and Gwenda Dixon in 1989. He was also found responsible for the murder of Richard and Helen Thomas in North Wales in December 1985 and was reconstructed on CWUK in 1986. He appeared on the TV show Bullseye in late May 1989 and comparison of his appearance on this show with the artists impression of the user of Peter Dixon’s cash card helped convict him. The man dubbed the game show killer because of his brazen TV appearance a short time before he committed a horrific double murder and three years after a previous similar crime received a justly deserved whole life tariff.
Stuart Kelly He also raped a 16 year old, sexually assaulted a 15 year old (both at gun point) in 1996. He had a history of crime including 30 robberies and assault. He’s definitely where he belongs!
@@helencompton3320 yeah i watched programme about him.. Nutter
He went on Bullseye & all he won was a cuddly pink hippo.
He was a really nasty piece of work. The Real Crime documentary about him from several years ago was really difficult to watch. The Bullseye interludes certainly showed the "mask" and were a stark contrast.
The photofit is a very good likeness of him.
Remember dont have nightmares do sleep well i will right after i watch some fantastic retro crimewatch thanks alot .
Cellulite... cellulite.....
Nathan Iliescu what’s wrong with cellulite you freak
@@nicolar6461 oh lord, it's not great is it.
@@nathaniliescu4597 🤣🤣
I think CW reconstructions struck so many nerves because it was like watching mortality being played out and the inevitable demise. ‘Don’t have nightmares..’ sums it all up.
"He's a wimp - a callous wimp," an absolutely spot-on comment from the officer investigating the shooting of the homeless gent in the last case.
I need to check the definition of a wimp
I wonder whether that was deliberate. Considering how the robber had been contacting the press about the case, perhaps it was an attempt to wind him up into getting in touch again and maybe providing a clue.
You never know, with all these unsolved murders, wouldn't it be good if a conviction came from someone who contacted the police after watching a reconstruction on Redcard74's uploads.
Eye
Must be a possibility at some point! Loyalty’s change over time 👍
Any and all things are possible!!
Or if some murder confessed and rejoined humanity with a clean conscience.
I thought that, would be amazing
When Bullseye Cooper tried to withdraw 37 quid from the cashpoint, I'd've like to have seen Jim Bowen's face appear on the computer screen and say "37 pounds, ladies and gentleman - it'll take me the time it takes for John Bly to bore us all to death with Aladdin's Cave to count it out."
It's annoyed me that your comment has 38 likes and not 37, one for each pound he asked for 😅
@@robbo391I was going to like it but decided to leave it at 37 😅
Oooh & that's half a packet of crisps & BFH!
I'm leaving your comment at 37 likes as well.
Why ruin something genuinely clever?
Oh..... darn it. My monitor doesn't have Ceefax.
You need a plug in dongle thingy or perhaps some stick-on Lego …
Evening fellow Crimewatcher's.
I'd been wanting to see the Dixon case. The reconstruction is probably one of the most chilling because it features an idyllic landscape and almost no violence yet it was such a horrific crime.
Beautiful weather up there when they were filming the reconstruction.
true crime drama about it on itv catch up at the mo.
10:15 That was one accurate witness. Spitting image of John Cooper.
One of the greatest pieces of observational detection in history . What’s remarkable is that he was observed at the cash point before the person in the car knew there was a crime . Why would he even take note of that’s person but he did fair play
@@caeglas1 I'm guessing if he made a mess of the cash machine, he may have been acting slightly oddly and stood out in a small town area like that
Hatcher had to do the A Loser gag-guy must have had a lot of balls to use that alias for a fraud.
Don't know what it was about villains in the 80s, but watching these episodes, it's funny how many of them are described as having 'beer bellies'.
Enjoying the proceeds of crime
@@zeddeka lol what bullshit ! Where is evidence or source ? I remember the 80s when you could leave your front door open and no one would enter your house. You obviously aren't old enough.
And moos-tishes … oh, and also mousy coloured hair.
People were much, much heavier drinkers back then than they are now. It's believed to be one of the reasons why Britain had some of the highest rates of violent crime in Europe back then.
The main actor in the last reconstruction looks like he belongs in a Levi’s commercial!
The composite in the Peter and Gwenda Dixon case makes it look like the guy has a severe wedgie.
That was the serial killer that went on 🎯
Evening you lovely lot! Thanks again Redcard, who’s for a cuppa?? Lol
I bet your on this deany boy
John Cooper, the serial killer who killed the couple in Wales, famously appeared as a contestant on Bullseye. It's astonishing how many serial killers over the years have had no qualms about appearing on TV before they got caught. David Mulcahey appeared on a BBC programme talking about his love of skating and another welsh serial killer, Peter Moore, regularly apoeared on local TV and radio. Testament perhaps to their Narcissistic view of reality.
Just tried but Ceefax isn’t working?
Try oracle
Try Lego.
Look forward to next ep-thanks again RC !!
Goodness the headlines in the shooting of poor David Patison.. 'have a go tramp' 'hero hobo'.. vile and distgusting. The press make me sick...
Snowflake
@@nathaniliescu4597 Sicko! 🙄
Wondering what happened to him?
@@tristanmorgan852 seems like he was still in hospital years later genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/8e19320e2a7d42549b40dae698c4a7eb
It’s just a headline calm down
We used to go to Pembrokeshire on holiday around that time. A very beautiful place.
In the Crimewatch file episode of the David Paterson shooting with the armed robbery, the security guard tells the robber to piss off when he says give me the money. I was expecting the same thing in this reconstruction!! A lot different. Horrible crime. That poor man had his life ruined by some scumbag who was too lazy to get a proper job or a legal way of making money. Bloody hell, sell cannabis even if he needed money that badly!! Instead of shooting people in the head and scaring others with a shotgun. Wimp is a perfect way to describe him.
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Its ironic you say that as david dint have a real job or legit money either, he was in fact stealing from the government by busking hense it being illegal .
I love the way the crook asked for £37 from the cash machine :)
Guy was a murderer crook is an understatement
inbred half baked potato picking cross eyed son hating mullett.
Some criminals are a little bit thick, aren’t they?
Sue was the best female presenter on Crimewatch
No, that was Fiona Bruce.
One of the great crime watch episodes with 3 cracking reconstructions
Hello my lovely CW friends please don’t have nightmares to think I was only three when this was on now I’m 32 scary it’s a shame they decided to axe the show after all those years Xx
u've grown up fast, time flies quickly
It's been back on for years, but it's shown in the mornings. Naturally, it's very different now, because the 1980s were 40 years ago. Literally last century.
Too many blacks would be on the show now🤣
Remember the robbery in Edinburgh reconstruction well, the shot of the manager pressing the alarm button stayed with me for some reason.
Did they get away with it?
So tragic the murder of the Dixons... Just such a twist of nasty fate...
And it was thanks a game show called Bullseye that sealed the fate of John Cooper
Rodney alcala
Never Fails to deliver...
evening all time for our crimewatch fix
I stayed at the Norton house hotel in Edinburgh, very nice hotel with a spa. The woman who served our breakfast said "that's lovely" a lot. It is a running gag in our family ever since.
First ever episode of Crimewatch that I watched and I still remember the Dixon case vividly. Trying to locate a couple of other reconstructions - one of a man wearing an old fashioned top hat & monicle combo (or something along those lines) where the killer was seen running off attempting to hide a bloodstained white t-shirt. The other took place on a farm where the murderer was witnessed from afar running up & stabbing the victim who was driving a tractor or something. Any ideas?
Yes, that was the murder of Margaret Wilson in Humberside in 1995. Might have that one soon.
@@redcard7475 Thanks redcard, look forward to seeing it. Any ideas about the other one? Think it might have been a London murder and the victim was a rotund gent w/neat facial hair & old fashioned garb - suited w/a bowler hat (rather than a top hat), umbrella, monicle/ small glasses etc. May have been a homphobic attack & may possibly have been a Crimewatch file done on it as well IIRC. This would have been from an early-90's episode.
@@gareth110777 Yes, the first case in the December 1989 show: ua-cam.com/video/sjGkNo-r8Hc/v-deo.html
I saw a tv programme on the murderer and they showed the Bullseye
@@gareth110777 the German guy??
Redcard has a serious cult following.. keep up the great work buddy 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
Did David Patterson recover from his injuries in the end !?!
I am afraid he did not fully recover. Because there was another ce about them catching the shooter in 1994. There he was disabled and in care still.
So unfair.
@@zahria This case was featured on a Crimewatch File. Such a shame for someone who simply loved to entertain people with tunes.
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The camping couple rip
Sue's jumper is fantastic. I want it!
Habasi she wore it in an earlier Episode as well
Sue looks great in it👍
Bizarrely, the previous episode she wore it in (April 86 - just double-checked it) featured the murders of Richard and Helen Thomas who, like the Dixon, were killed by John Cooper.
@@meskbren unknown at the time of course.
Reminds me of Dortmunds football kit
Evening Crimewatchers
Evening all
It’s actually three in the morning.
Really looking forward to watching the crimewatch files thanks redcard
Anyone else notice how superintendent David Hatcher pronounces the word 'mustache' @ 14:48? 🤣
Mustosh 😂
Yes! I look forward to it in every episode! "Mooos-tawche" lol. One of the loveable quirks of the show
😂🤣😂
“I mus-tosh you a question” 🥸😆
Common in London
The copper in the Peter and Gwenda Dixon case looks like he doesn’t want to be there! He’s barely looking at Nick.
He does have a camera pointing at him with 100s of thousands of viewers on the other end.
John Cooper the bullseye killer was responsible evil man also the fire at the manour house he killed thoses too.
The Dixons were shot dead by John ‘can’t beat a bit of bully’ Cooper.
Stephen Roche He also killed Richard and Helen Thomas from an earlier reconstruction.
Paul8342 shame it took so long catch the swine
There making a drama about him right now. He was a pig of a man who was nasty to his wife and kids especially his son who he would point a gun at and make him think he was going to kill from an young age
@@tristanmorgan852 think it's called Pembrokeshire murders
@@davythompson2023 luke Evans is the police man and keth Alan is playing the part of John Cooper. Very good actors hopefully it'll be worth watching
I wonder if this programme is the reason why when I was looking at buying a Ford Sierra for my first car my Dad told me "Get used to being pulled over".
The David Patterson case is so typical of the 80s. There was so much unemployment in the regions that people flocked to London. Many people ended up on the streets with nowhere to live, and "cardboard city" on the south bank was a real problem. Sadly, a lot of kids who ran away like that ended up in the clutches of paedophiles. Places like Piccadilly Circus, Kings Cross, Euston and Charing Cross were notorious for it.
I watched the John Cooper Crimewatch Redux last wk! I actually remember seeing him on Bullseye! Jim Bowen should've just given him half a packet of crisps & BFH!
I’m sure Cook snaffled that jumper from the Aladdin’s Cave.
No, Max Headroom.
26:09 The Nasty Sort of Bubbles would be a great band name
Too long and is pretty shit
So would ‘Don’t Have Nightmares’ !
Just caught up. These are superb.
The David Patterson appeal is interesting. Officer in charge is clearly goading the gunman, probably in the hope it will provoke him into calling in. Hope they caught the sod.
No doubt-likely he consulted a profiler after getting the cuttings & would have known he was a neurotic, egomaniac who would find it difficult to accept being insulted in such a public manner & even if he didn't contact the police to shout at them likely would have flown into a rage & been stroppy around family or friends for the next day or two.
Hi very true. It’s a clever little ploy, the guys clearly got a short fuse, so light it.
He's a wimp. A callous wimp at that!
Bill Mellish did like up to rub people up the wrong way. He got into trouble when in a documentary he smirked about how Stephen Lawrence's mate ran away.
I love watching these back.
Saw a different one the other day and a man was charged 91 pence for a pint and a ham baguette!
Times were good then, could go on a night out, get pissed, get a munch on way home and still wake up with change out a fiver. Happy daze.
And people got paid an awful lot less, so it wasn't as cheap as it looks. £5 in 1989 money is the equivalent of £17 in 2024 money. I remember as late as 1994, one of my mates had a job in House of Fraser and they were paying him £1 an hour (!!)
Remember this is more crime than most people will see in a lifetime. Unless you live in London than you will probably see this in a day.
Most of these crimes are set in Liverpool, or the West Country, most aren't in London!!!!
Except crime like this is actually lower now than it was in the 1980s. You a Russian Troll or just a bitter old man?
Or if you have a Mexican moustache & look in the mirror every day!
@@AACE73Don’t forget the beer belly and the thinning mousy hair.
@@LANCSKID and that's just the women!
Donald Kell murder is still unsolved.
That robbery was like the Italian Job🤣🤣🤣
No hanging over the cliff ..................
Sue to the copper 'Thanks Mr. Crook...ehh Crookson'. Jokes
They scrapped 2 Cortinas to make his wife’s glasses.
There was a crime watch file in 1994 showing how they caught david pattersons shooter
Ian Bousfield Any idea for which month?
I'm pretty sure it was March 1994
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That’s right. Good episode.
It’s called in the line of fire or something to that extent,also he was caught because one of his “friends” grassed on him probably getting some kind of payment for that as well. Fucking snitches are low but when they claim to be your mate that’s just scummy if you ask me.
31:49 - [in English, after the previous bit was in Bengali, with English subtitles] 'We have a Bengali speaker in the studio, to take your calls'.
Evening all!
15.06 Elizabeth and john shiel, it's a possibility they have changed their hair colours since these photo's were taken ? ... more like '' it's a possibility they have had complete face lifts'' with a 100 grand that;s why they stole it .... wouldn't you if you looked like that at 44 and 37 !!
Lovely jumper
Amazing jumper yes a little touch of class
@@Peter-ix1ymYes, she is!
I read about Dixon's case in prembrokeshire murder book in library
Brilliant once again... ta
Thats 2 men that what ended up being shot 1 killed in a single episode, if anything we can take from this its not to be a have a go hero. Crime watch will only paint you out as a helpless victim.
These cops going to an armed robbery unarmed. Got to love the UK in those days.
Access, your Flexible Friend. Don't see that anymore.
Mine wasn’t very flexible … snapped in half!
Wonder if the murderer in Pembroke is the same guy who endured up getting caught bc he was spotted on an episode of Bullseye with Jim Bowen?
Yep! Search for John Cooper Crimewatch Redux 😉
Yes it was...John Cooper
I live in Milford haven so know all about this case,he didn’t kill Richard n Helen Thomas in north wales but in scoveston about two miles from me,he was convicted of raping a schoolgirl,he also won 90k on spot the ball before all this happened.
You shouldn't have got pissed so much in your youth mate. A number of people had already talked about that in the comments, and of course Google is always your friend.
Was anything solved with the Edinburgh robbery?
Not as far as I know. A fair wad of cash they got away with back in the day!
People from Germany knowing and having watched Aktenzeichen XY ... ungelöst! (the German version of Crimewatch) may remember the Dixon murder as it was shown in Germany in December 1st's episode of Aktenzeichen XY ... ungelöst!
It's not in English is it? Or subtitled?
@@treasurehunteruk9718 As with Aktenzeichen XY ... ungelöst!, we are talking about a German programme, it is unprobable that it is in English :D
@@croqueGrec09 Yeah, so I wondered why it was mentioned here, like it was something we could watch as an alternative to Crimewatch.
@@treasurehunteruk9718 Because the Dixon case was shown in Germany as well since there was an appeal for a German (or Austrian or Swiss) student and it may have been that he was watching the German edition, that is why I mentionned it.
@@croqueGrec09 OK, thanks.
No Jaqui Haymes this month?
09:03 don't get why someone driving by a cash machine in a car remembers who was using it. Most people probably pass by dozens of cash machines being used on a daily basis.
Yeah how bizarre
Cash machines were relatively new then, and Pembroke is a tiny town in the Welsh countryside so would stick out a lot more than the same situation today
@@robbo391 fair point 👍
This is location of campsite from which Dixons disappeared: www.google.com/maps/place/51%C2%B045'55.1%22N+5%C2%B007'00.5%22W/@51.765305,-5.1181143,345m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x0:0x0!7e2!8m2!3d51.7653035!4d-5.1168176
Perfect!
This is why nobody believes in the bbc now..as they don't make quality like this anymore it's all style over substance now..unlike the polar opposite here...I rest my case
Well first of all its not 1989 anymore. Crime is at its lowest ever levels now, thank god. Things like securicor van raids, serial killers, burglary and child abduction don't happen anything like as often as they did then. They can't make a programme like this now because crime like this largely doesn't happen, and on the odd occasion it does, it's solved much more quickly. Crimewatch has been back in for years, in the mornings. But it's very different because crime is very different now.
Oh my god, the guy that got shot in London grew up in the same area of Glasgow where I stay.
You do realise that this all happened literally last century.
@@zeddeka So, what's your point?
@@jenniferkelly5897 That a) it's likely a very different area than it was back then, given how much Glasgow has changed; b) you can find historic crimes in pretty much any place in the country you want; c) Who cares where you stay? Are you some kind of VIP or something? Why did you feel the need to tell us where you stay? Nobody cares. This isn't Facebook with all the histrionic attention seeking that goes on there.
Hello all Crimewatcher’s! Just grabbing a quick shower and I’ll be back! 🕵🏻♀️
Saddo.
No rush!
Wow, Donald Kell was a brave man, but possibly the dumbest person ever on Crimewatch.
Donald Kell
He was just a retired plumber with a reputation for complaining, speaking out, voicing his views, and intervening. But he was also a man of remarkable courage.
Standing at the entrance of his block of flats, Harold House in Finchley Road, north London, Donald Kell, 66, saw two armed men wearing balaclava masks robbing a Brinks-Mat security lorry parked outside the Swiss Cottage branch of Lloyds Bank. The robbers had a security guard on the ground.
Without a thought for his own safety Donald Kell acted characteristically. He waded into the robbers, hitting them right left and centre with some wooden planks he had just bought. One of the robbers, irritated by the intervention, told him to get lost and fired a warning shot. Mr. Kell took no notice, continuing to lash out. The robber fired again, and this time the bullet went through Mr. Kells chest.
The killers made their getaway with just £500 in one-pound coins. Mr. Kell was taken to hospital, where he died an hour later. The Metropolitan Police say the killing, on Wednesday, July 26th, 1989, remains a high priority on their unsolved murder list.
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The murder remains unsolved.
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Absolutely. Banks & Security companies are insured. Don't bring a wooden plank to a gunfight.
John bullseye cooper
Danny Wood He also killed Richard and Helen Thomas in 1985 and was given 4 life sentences but not until 2011. He was also convicted of the rape of a 16 year old and the sexual assault of a 15 year old carried out in 1996.
40£ back then for shoes thats lotscof money then
Well... I remember buying hiking boots around that time- mine cost 20ish and they were about the cheapest I could find. £40 for a brand name would be about right.
£40, not 40£ !!!
£40 back then the equivalent of £135 in 2024 money
SORRY the attack white chapel was NOT SPECIAL as they stated
I like to 36:00
Hah!
Was the murderer of Esmath Ali ever found?
I must grow a Mexican style moustache
Don’t forget to add a beer belly and some thinning mousy hair!
Hatcher here showing the early signs of Wilding’s Syndrome.
33 .16 ''a have a go tramp'' i wonder if that was the rag s*n newspaper ?
Oh, yes, the pinnacle of journalistic integrity and all-round professionalism!
That first inspector does not have a English accent
Sue stop victim blaming. Not my fault I didn't have a pen lol
Evening All!
Sue, dressed as a bio-hazard sack...
that's what i thought
or a bollard from the Hacienda...
@@dissonantdreams 🤣🤣🤣
Sue Cook looking as lovely as ever
I would expect nothing less.
The bit about marking dollar bills...
Fine weather for a walk and to meet a maniac. Lol
He’s a wimp. A callous wimp at that. 🤣. Just tickled me, although what he did wasn’t remotely funny.
More please
Sue looked gorgeous tonight. X 😂
I would expect nothing less.
People often call me an old dosser … at least I think that’s what they are saying.
You plebs
Z
I absolutely hate have a go hereos it's only money and it's not yours so don't get involved. If you get shot or worse. Tough. No sympathy here.
When time comes that money is yours - who will be there to tackle robbery, if everyone is supposed to stay away? Are you suggesting robbers should feel safe and do their business without watching their backs?
Go home you crust old man. Nobody cares about you.
Can't decide if you genuinely have the morals of a psychopath, or if you are just so thick you cannot understand what you are saying.
I certainly wouldn’t encourage people to have a go if the robbers have guns. You don’t know if they’re loaded or whether the robbers are prepared to use them. Some are and some aren’t. I wouldn’t take that chance.
You're a bit of a misanthrope, aren't you?