I am sure we all have these most days. Today I have just had mine whilst reading a news article online. It is a story about the death of criminal gangland leader John “Goldfinger” Palmer.
“Police initially ruled his death non suspicious but launched a murder investigation 6 days later when a routine post mortem examination discovered the cause of death had been a gunshot wound to the chest.”
I would call that quite suspicious? Also not noticed at the time hmm!
Quite. I would imagine there was quite a lot of blood and a bullet hole.
Perhaps he was in the canteen eating chips with ketchup and the put 1 and 1 together?
Was this the great U.S of A by any chance?
Just as an aside, I wonder how many criminal gang leaders die of natural causes?
No it was here! You see all these wonderful Crime Scene programmes where they can tell what the victim had for breakfast before they get out of their cars and there is this bloke, lying dead from a gunshot wound in his garden - and Plod only find out he had been shot after a “routine post mortem.” LOL
The Copper’s name wasn’t Rosie by any chance? No pictures of him online with brown paper nags or anything?
No doubt he’d already been promoted to Chief Inspector
Ideally it would have been Corner of the Yard.
I read that and my instant thought was that there was something wrong with that article as surely it would be quite obvious to tell if someone had been shot?..anyway, this is another fellas WTF moment…
I saw a programme the other day that said that some gunshot wounds don’t actually produce much blood at all.
Originally posted by @Fatso
Originally posted by @Sadoldgit
Quite. I would imagine there was quite a lot of blood and a bullet hole.
I saw a programme the other day that said that some gunshot wounds don’t actually produce much blood at all.
Yeah I suppose depending on the entry point that could be the case. There would be an entry point though and you would imagine that would have been picked up at the scene. I was talking to a copper the other night who knows Kenny Noye quite well (a major crim who has been involved in the Brinks Mat and other major heists) and he thinks it is part of a cover up. Not a great cover up if they failed to fix the post mortem though!
Just read this…"The 64 year old career criminal was shot dead at his family home in South Weald, Essex. Initially local police said his death was a result of complications following recent surgery but a post mortem examination later found he had been murdered. In yet another development surrounding his mysterious killing sources now claimed Palmer was being helped by senior Scotland Yard figures after being found to have strong links with the force. (Daily Mail)
Also it says that he was killed by a shotgun fitted with a silencer and amunition containing wires designed to inflict maximum damage on internal organs.