First Crime story you remember?

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I would say the first one I remember was Damilola Taylor briefly , I was about 7 and remember seeing it on the news.

I remember a man and woman in a car offering us sweets and it was about the time of Hindley and Brady, my big sister stopped me from taking them and told my dad who went running up the road looking for the car, it had long gone.
I remember JFK being assassinated I was 5.

I remember the Yorkshire ripper being caught (from Sheffield where they got him) that's probably the first. Inwas 5

The Lockerbie plane bombing was the first I remember. I was only 7 at the time. Then it’s Jamie Bulger and Dunblane.

First one I remember was Holly and Jessica as they were a very similar age to me.

I also remember being obsessed with the Claremont Serial Killer as an older teenager, and then weirdly enough met DH who grew up in Claremont and went to the nursery that one of the girls worked in.

Bloody Sunday, I don't actually remember it as such but I remember my mum sitting with me explaining that, 'the priest with the hankie' was a brave man helping the injured man and what a white flag meant.

The first one I remember as an actual court case was the murder of Lesley Whittle. My parents listened to radio 4 in the car so I heard more details than a 9 year old should really hear.

Which is odd because after seeing some things on the news my brother and I were banned from watching TV news.

Jamie Bulger.
And the Hyde Park bombing. I had a Blue Peter album with a feature about ‘Sefton the Wonderhorse’ and all the places on his body he’d been wounded.

Gosh and yes to listening to radio 4. It’s the soundtrack of my life and I’m sure my own dc have heard lots of detail about things.

A girl who went to the shop to buy milk and didn’t come home. I can’t remember anymore details though.

A fella called the border fox. I would have been young - maybe 5-7?

He went on the run (think he was an IRA prisoner who had escaped). He came to our village and shot at the gardai. I remember my father being in hysterics laughing at the thoughts of them being shot at (they were lazy by all accounts). I think I recall him saying something like 'they'd need a bullet behind them to move them'. sleepy village
I was quite disappointed when he was caught as I remember a few days being quite exciting finding out where the Border Fox was lol

I recall being very much on the side of the Border fox. Not on the side of the law.

Jamie Bulger for me. Would have been about 8(ish)

I very vaguely remember Lockerbie as my Dad went on a transatlantic flight the next year and I was terrified something would happen to him.

Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth.

I didn't remember either girl's name but their pictures and story stuck with me.
I am a similar age to them and they were abducted and murdered as teenagers in the '80s.

There was a BBC documentary recently and investigations into their murders prompted the very fist use of and subsequent development of DNA testing.

@FrenchFancie
An arrest was made a couple of months ago regarding Katrice Lee, but details haven’t been released.

The Royal Marines School of Music in Deal being bombed by the IRA. My primary school put on a fundraising concert a few months later and my class, who had just left when the bombing happened, came back and sang We Are Sailing. Also the Lockerbie bombing and (not a crime as such but the first major disaster I was aware of) the sinking of the Herald of Free Enterprise in 1987.

Yvonne Fletcher but I was too little I think to understand it. The first one that really scared me was the 'Babes in the woods' murders.

John Lennon getting shot- it was the first news story I was aware of (my mother was a huge Beatles fan) and it seemed so weird to me as a small girl that a person could just walk up to a person and kill them.

Rachel Nickell’s murder on Wimbledon Common is probably the earliest I remember. Awful.

Suzy Lamplugh. My mum was an estate agent, and it definitely changed how they practised.

Is anybody else wondering why 8 year olds are on MN?

I think it was James Bulger for me. I was about 12.

I grew up in Sydney and the Anita Cobby case is the first that springs to mind, I was 8. There was mass news coverage, it was such a horrible crime

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Anita_Cobby

I think I was about 8/9 when Harry Roberts was on the run after murdering 3 policemen. His photo used to give me the shivers and my friend and I were convinced he was hiding behind every corner.

James Bulger, I was very young at the time.

One crime that was very close to home was Steve Wright, the Suffolk Strangler. I was living in Ipswich at the time and remember feeling genuinely scared. I was working in the town centre at the time and our company laid on taxis so that no female members of staff walked home by themselves.

@Frenchw1fe - do you think the people in the car were Myra Hindley and Ian Brady? Did you live around Manchester/Oldham?

I grew up about half a mile from Chelsea Barracks, I remember them being bombed very clearly. There were quite a number of MPs, judges, politicians etc in our street. I grew up thinking that checking under the car for bombs was a normal part of anyone’s morning routine.

Dunblane was the first one that comes to my mind. I remember hearing about it when I was small. It's always stayed with me.

Was very small but can remember the Lord Lucan (alleged) crimes....