Crime & criminals (26 pages found in this category)


Scuttlers

Members of neighbourhood-based youth gangs formed in working-class areas of Manchester, Salford, and the surrounding townships during the late 19th century.

Tottenham Outrage

Armed robbery in Tottenham, North London on 23 January 1909.

Vatersay Raiders

Ten Scottish cottars who were imprisoned in 1908 after illegally setting up homes on the small Hebridean island of Vatersay.

Walthamstow Chase

Redirected to Tottenham Outrage.

Whipping Tom

Name given to two sex offenders, one in London and the other in the nearby village of Hackney, active in 1681 and 1712 respectively.

Yorkshire witch

Redirected to Mary Bateman.