Slaughter
The Laitner family on the day of the wedding: Basil, Nicola, Suzanne, Richard and Avril I know a man who was once a senior policeman here in South Yorkshire. Last week, at my birthday lunch, he reminded me of The Dore Murders that took place forty years ago in October 1983. Let's call him George Dixon. Fugitive criminal, Arthur Hutchinson, was on the run. In fact, he had escaped from a police station in the Yorkshire town of Selby and then he appeared in Sheffield where he was not previously known. In the early hours of October 23rd, 1983, he turned up at the palatial hone of the Laitner family. The Laitners had three living children and that very day they had been celebrating the marriage of their older daughter Suzanne. The reception had taken place in the family home. There was a marquee in the garden. When Hutchinson first got into the house, he mercilessly stabbed 28 year old Richard Laitner to death. Hearing a commotion, Richard's father Basil - a 58...