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Craig Semple was a career Detective within the NSW Police Force for 25 years. Much of Craig’s career was invested in `high risk’ law enforcement including drug investigation, the investigation of outlaw motorcycle gangs and homicides. Craig has just completed his autobiography titled “The Cope who fell to earth”In this raw and unflinchingly honest autobiography he gives a rare insight into the difficulties and dynamics of criminal investigation. Crime scenes described in vivid detail provide a front-row seat to the challenges of trauma, while gripping narratives of covert operations shine a light on the shadows cast by despair, greed and power at all levels of society.The Cop Who Fell to Earth is Craig Semple’s story of transformation and profound personal growth through exposure to extreme life events. As compelling as a thriller, it is a story of how human endurance, tenacity, sacrifice and belief in something beyond the self ultimately lead to the triumph of good over evil.https://www.echopublishing.com.au/books/the-cop-who-fell-to-earth Discussing how phone evidence can be crucial to an investigation, Steve shares details of a violent triple murder in December 2015. US mother begs for advice on how to tell her 30-year-old daughter that her brother is actually her FATHER If there's an area where people's expectations really don't meet the reality I would say it was around forensics.' The book takes readers through Edington's attempts to plead to manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility and how prosecutors hired a top psychiatrist to prove she was aware of what she was doing, acting out of anger at her medical treatment at the time.

The former detective recalls the questions that ran through his head as he arrived at the flat where the bodies were found. Britain's 'most dangerous plant' strikes again: Teen is left with a painful blister the size of an ORANGE after accidentally brushing past giant hogweed However, there is much here that will be anathema to the seasoned “Ripperologist”. Some factual errors can be forgiven as they don't detract from the main arguments, but the biggest “crime” is that the scene-setting for each of the murders consists of putting words into the mouths and thoughts into the minds, of victims and witnesses. (And he also does this at the very end, but no spoilers).But if those crimes had happened today, how would they be investigated and how would the approach differ? There is no doubt, how detectives work has changed dramatically over those 130 years. Although, in many senses, things are very much the same. Solving murders relies on an understanding of people, be that the victims, the witnesses and, most importantly, the killers themselves.

He recounted how his team were one of the first in the country to be trained in specialist equipment to deal with dangerous hazards known as Chemical, Biological, Radiological or Nuclear (CBRN) materials. As a murder investigator, it is something you get used to. But, in a job that he says gave him regular violent nightmares, the one thing he never got used to was the sight of dead children, something which he says reminded him of the evil that exists in the world. In the book, I look at it quite simply and it's not something we're taught as police officers. It's my theory on why people kill.Pictured is the inside of the tube at Edgware Road station on 7/7 after a bomb exploded on the train Blood, a lot of blood. It was in the kitchen and, most distressingly, in the children's bedroom. I can't think of anything worse than that scene,' Steve writes.

Mr Keogh doesn’t make any surprising revelations. For readers already familiar with the Whitechapel murders, the book’s main appeal is its application of modern investigative techniques to the crimes and the results of that application. Readers’ reactions to the results will, of course, depend upon their biases. Former Detective Inspector Steven Keogh joined the Metropolitan Police in 1991, spending most of his 30-year career as a detective. Arthur Simpson-Kent brutally murdered his girlfriend - EastEnders actress Sian Blake - and sons, Zachary, eight, and Amon, four, before burying the bodies in the garden of their home in Erith, Kent, and fleeing to Ghana. Stressing that it was rare murders went uncleared, he said: 'You're with the family from the beginning, you're sharing in their grief right the way from the start all the way through to the trial and if you get to the trial and someone is found not guilty, that always sits with me.

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Police could see the killer had called a friend who, enquiries revealed, had booked a flight to Ghana for him. Mr Schiano, 49, suffered 26 knife wounds and blood evidence showed he had tried to pull himself along the floor before succumbing to his injuries. As an aside: I also learnt a lot about crime scene investigation(s) in general. For example, I’d not before considered the difference between ‘fingerprints’ and ‘fingermarks’ and/or the ‘behaviour’ of spilt blood. Very insightful, informative and interesting indeed! JK Rowling warns that girls' safety is being 'sacrificed to an incoherent trans ideology' after teenage boy is arrested over 'sex assaults in gender-neutral loos in Essex school'

It's often tied to drug dealing and there's a lot of money in drug dealing. So where there's a lot of money, there's a lot of violence because they're protecting their interests and that's not going to go away any time soon. The other thing was I didn't want to be seen to be turning on the police in any way so it was a balancing act between giving people an insight into what we do but not overstepping any marks.' Steve said: 'It was scarier, I've got to be honest. In my 12 years dealing with murders, I never ever felt uncomfortable arresting a murderer. He said: 'It’s going to be difficult to restore people’s faith in the force. When I’ve seen that women are now mistrusting the police as a whole to the point where some are saying they don’t feel they could call the police if something was to happen, it’s just heartbreaking because it’s them they should be calling. Apena, 22 at the time, was found guilty of conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. He was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 32 years. No one was ever convicted of pulling the trigger.He was commended for his role in investigating the 7/7 bombings during which he crawled through tunnels collecting body parts. Steve was made aware of Edgington who was arrested for what 'appeared to be a completely random' killing. He has spent hours going through evidence from the original investigation and assessing the decisions taken and conclusions reached. Boy, 15, and man, 23, are knifed to death in Islington double murder as music video shoot turns to mayhem and third victim, 28, is rushed to hospital with stab wounds Gang members believed Samuel was going to snitch during a firearms trial and Ola Apena, of south London, arranged Samuel's murder from within an Oxfordshire prison using illicit mobile phones.