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This cop tried to kill his whole family | Cops Who Kill with Will Mellor
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I expect that they said after the event, "lessons will be learned".
Famous last words.
Always.
https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/videos/cop-tried-kill-his-whole-family-cops-who-kill-will-mellor
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/gravesend/news/why-police-officer-killed-wife-a-a825/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluestone_family_murders
A police officer bludgeoned his wife and two of his children to death in a hammer attack, an inquest heard.
PC Karl Bluestone carried out the killings after his wife told him she was leaving him and taking their children away.
PC Bluestone murdered his wife Jill, 31, and two of their children Henry, three, and Chandler, 18 months, at their Kent home.
The Bluestones' two other children, Jessica, six, and Jack, seven, survived the attack, on August 28 this year.
The Bluestones' funeral procession
Jill Bluestone and her children were buried separately from Karl
"She had blood coming out of her neck. I don't want daddy to kill mummy."
The court heard Mr and Mrs Bluestone had several violent fights in the past, including one in June this year, in which PC Bluestone throttled his wife until she became unconscious.
Mrs Bluestone told a friend afterwards that her husband had said "there is no divorce, the only way out is death".
On Tuesday, the inquest in Gravesend heard PC Bluestone, 36, became irate in the days leading up to the attack, believing Mrs Bluestone was having an affair with a work colleague.
The inquest was told, in a statement from Jessica, what happened to Mrs Bluestone.
Jessica ran from the family home after PC Bluestone banged her head against a wooden floor, while hitting Mrs Bluestone with the hammer.
Minutes later, Jessica told a neighbour: "I cannot get mummy out of my mind.
Henry, three, was found lying in a pool of blood at the bottom of the stairs and Chandler, 18 months was found dead in his cot.
Mrs Bluestone was found in the kitchen with the bloodstained hammer lying beside her.
After carrying out the attacks PC Bluestone went into the garage and hanged himself with a piece of rope.
In the weeks leading up to the killings, PC Bluestone increasingly believed his wife was having an affair and recorded her telephone calls on a mini-disc.
On 25 August Mrs Bluestone made it clear to her husband she was going to leave and that was the breaking point in their relationship, the inquest heard.
'Life in danger'
In a statement read out by Detective Chief Inspector Colin Murray, Mrs Bluestone had told a friend she felt increasingly in fear of her life.
"She thought he would try to kill her," the friend had said.
In earlier incidents, PC Bluestone punched Jill in the stomach while she was pregnant and in another threatened her with a meat cleaver.
In June 1999, PC Bluestone smashed the back windscreen of Mrs Bluestone's car and started throwing objects around a room, with a vase striking Jessica's head.
He was arrested and on the way to the police station took a quantity of pills.
Just two days before the killings, a woman saw the family having a heated row in a park.
On the day of the murders PC Bluestone came home from work after going for a drink with some colleagues and started having an argument with Jill.
'Head injuries'
The argument paused while PC Bluestone watched The Bill on television, but resumed shortly afterwards.
Ernest Lane, the Bluestones' neighbour, said that sometime during the incident Jessica banged on the door and "looked terrified".
He said: "I saw a child knocking frantically on the glass door and saw that it was Jessica Bluestone from next door. She looked terrified.
"She said 'My daddy is hitting my mummy. Please call the police'."
Coroner Roger Hatch recorded verdicts of unlawful killing for Mrs Bluestone, Henry and Chandler, with head injuries being the cause of death.
The verdict for PC Bluestone was one of suicide, with the cause of death as "suspension".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/1641255.stm
Good grief.
There have been a number of serious cases with similar warning signs since.
These cases must surely cast doubt on any lessons that might have been learnt.
The recruitment of new officers without even a face to face interview, and the absence of a stringent vetting process, surely make you wonder if any lessons have been learnt, or that the lessons being learnt has just become a standard response to every tragedy.
Felt a bit sorry for him though.
The police have ruined the last 32 years of his life.
They made a stupid statement at the end.
They said that a number of individuals remain of interest to the investigation, and refer to the fact that the husband was a suspect in 2005, and point out that his status has not changed.
This is despite them having no evidence, and being forced to drop the charges.
They also said it is an open and investigation.
I would love to know what they are currently investigating.
Someone claiming to be 'The Killer' sent sick, taunting letters to police, Ann’s family and a local paper
Escaped con Michael Benson was on the run at the time after serving nearly 20 years for attempted murder
An artist’s impression of a man who attacked two women two weeks before Ann's murder looks like Benson’s photo shown on Crimewatch
Ruth Bennett married Benson in 1989 not knowing he had absconded from jail
Benson’s blue Ford Orion matched witness accounts of Ann's murder
The Sun has now shown one letter to Benson’s ex-wife.
Upon reading it, the colour drained from her face and she said: “One hundred per cent that’s Michael’s handwriting.”
Ruth Bennett, who married Benson in 1989 not knowing he had absconded from jail, said: “I’d recognise it anywhere and I’d swear on the Bible that he wrote it. I’m convinced he’s a killer.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14553821/ann-heron-letter-murder-escaped-prisoner/
Solicitor Alistair Smith called for a review by the Independent Office of Police Conduct into the force's handling of the case and for another force to re-investigate.
"Durham Constabulary's fixation with Peter Heron being Ann Heron's murderer has been to the detriment of a full and proper investigation," he said.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-56828223
Middlesbrough-based law firm, Watson Woodhouse, is handling Debbie's complaint, which details the alleged failure to fully investigate and analyse numerous evidence and lines of enquiry, including critical alibis and documents from three independent witnesses, who all were able to place Peter at the offices of Cleveland Bridge over a mile away from the crime scene.
The six page letter sent to Durham Constabulary, also asks for clarification on several unanswered questions, including how in 1990, a forensic scientist and pathologist stated the murderer would have physically restrained Ann and that her wounds would have bled heavily.
Witnesses stated that Peter Heron had been wearing the same light-coloured trousers and white shirt all day.
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/murdered-ann-herons-family-make-21217654
The Kidnap and Murder of Lynda Spence airs on Wednesday, April 12 at 9pm on Channel 5.
The Kidnap and Murder of Lynda Spence: What happened and was her body ever found?
https://www.entertainmentdaily.co.uk/true-crime/lynda-spence-murder-channel-5-what-happened/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-22064366