Monday, October 08, 2012

Real Life Meets Fiction

There is a murder trial going on at the moment on which we have no comment, other than to note the extraordinary names and places involved:-
The alleged victim was Lt Col Robert "Riley" Workman, the alleged killer Christopher Docherty-Puncheon. The crime took place in Furneux Pelham, a village not too far from Stocking Pelham.

Those names are pure Midsomer Murders, are they not?

12 comments:

  1. Wonderful names! Shame that the defendant's birth name, and the one by which he was known at the time of this murder, was actually Nudds, not quite so Midsomeresque, but all part of the complex plot.

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    1. Robert the Biker9 October 2012 at 11:22

      Ahh...But the fact that his name was actually Nudds would have been the previously unseen clue that got him arrested in the last ten minutes of the episode.

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  2. The investigation was protracted, and theories the police were reported at one time to be considering included dark hints about the victim's Army past and that he had been shot in mistake for Tim Workman, the former Chief Magistrate, who lives in the area.

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  3. "...right now you got me about as confused as I ever hope to be."

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  4. And as well we have, in evidence, "a receipt which showed the transaction was timed at 21:31 GMT." Pity there is, as yet, no disputed train schedule into the mix, nor howling hounds nor outrageous disguises discarded at the scene.

    Still, I believe it may require Lord Wimsey to sort this lot out.

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  5. The horse did it!

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    1. Robert the Biker9 October 2012 at 14:27

      In the Gazebo, with a coconut!

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  6. The silver screen beckons, "The Taking of Pelham Replacement Bus Service"

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  7. Have you seen this.
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9586865/Ratcatcher-accused-of-murdering-retired-colonel-was-his-lover-court-hears.html

    John Gibson

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  8. not quite sure what element of "alleged" applies in your description of the victim, surely the fact he was the victim of a crime is accepted ?

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    1. Sometimes, (perhaps not in this case), it is found as a matter of fact that a crime has not taken place (eg a homicide was in self-defence and therefore not criminal). Then, there is no victim. Until that finding, it was alleged there was a crime and therefore a victim. Hence, it is sensible to talk of an "alleged victim".

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