John Hoskins
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- Oct 2, 2026
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Freed career criminal killed widow and love rival before shooting himself (opens the original)
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A wealthy widow's plea in the Court of Appeal secured Peter Fowler's freedom but within months, he had blasted her and a love rival with a double-barrelled shotgun near her home in a secluded area of the New Forest, confessing the double murder in a unique letter to a newspaper editor before turning the gun on himself. Mother-of-five Maria Graham met the career criminal, described as the 'black sheep in a good family,' three months before he was jailed for four years for a series of deceptions.
Widow's plea freed killer months before he shot her and her love rival in New Forest (opens the original)
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A wealthy widow's plea in the Court of Appeal secured Peter Fowler's freedom but within months, he had blasted her and a love rival with a double-barrelled shotgun near her home in a secluded area of the New Forest, confessing the double murder in a unique letter to a newspaper editor before turning the gun on himself. Mother-of-five Maria Graham met the career criminal, described as the 'black sheep in a good family,' three months before he was jailed for four years for a series of deceptions.
Gunman claimed wife and children died before robbing Southampton building society (opens the original)
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WERE his grief-stricken tears genuine? A customer pushed a hheart-rendingletter across the counter which read: "I am very depressed. I have just lost my wife. I lost my children in a fire." But then his mood abruptly changed, threatening two cashiers: "I have a gun pointing at you." Tracy Harder, 22, and Sandra Payne, 39, looked up from reading the note to find, to their horror, that these ominous words were not a bluff. "We were so shocked," said Mrs Payne. "We thought the man who came in and p
Thieves stole Southampton artist’s painting from exhibition (opens the original)
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They could not have been more conspicuous had they tried. How do you steal a large painting featuring a four-foot painting of a dinosaur without drawing attention to yourself? Two cheeky thieves discovered the nigh-impossible task when they tried walking out of Southampton University with it tucked under an arm. "Where do you think you're going?" demanded an assistant, noticing the pair clutching the painting which had been taken from the geology department's museum. Artist William Shayer. (Imag
Ice cream seller ordered to pay £250 after rival suffered 60 stitches (opens the original)
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As a cold war between two ice cream sellers hotted up in a Hampshire town, one was left with just wafer thin profits and the other plastered with strawberry sauce. It was all a matter of taste for children rushing out of school. The brutal competition began when Jeffrey Woods started moving in on patches worked by Nigel Freemantle after breaking a gentlemanly agreement not to work the same patch at the same time. Though Freemantle's Gemini van invariably arrived first at the school gates, the ki
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