Murder By The Sea

Some of the most strange and terrifying murders ever recorded in British Criminal history have taken place at our famous seaside resorts: the grand hotels, playing host to some of the deadliest murderers imaginable; the seafronts the stalking grounds for the most wicked of all serial killers.

Terry Clifton murdered Tony Marrocco and his colleague Paul Sandham at their garage in Morecambe. Despite being the most wanted man in Britain, he managed to elude the authorities in a desperate game of cat and mouse, before the law eventually caught up with him.

Some of the most strange and terrifying murders ever recorded in British Criminal history have taken place at our famous seaside resorts: the grand hotels, playing host to some of the deadliest murderers imaginable; the seafronts the stalking grounds for the most wicked of all serial killers.

Colin Gunn was one of the most feared gangsters in the UK. Following the death of his nephew, he ordered a revenge killing against the parents of the boy whom he considered to be responsible for his nephew's spiral into drink, drugs and eventual death. The innocent couple were hunted down to their hideout on the Lincolnshire coast, before being gunned down by masked hitmen.

Longworth was the Commodore of his local sailing club in Southport. Enraged by his wife carrying out an affair, he plotted to murder her: staging her death as an act of suicide by hanging.

Grieveson preyed on school boys who all attended the Monkwearmouth Academy School in Sunderland. Committing a series of 4 brutal murders, he attempted to disguise the acts of murder as accidents involving solvent misuse.

The game show loving, shot gun wielding, serial killer, who murdered 4 people in one of the most spectacular coastal beauty spots in the world.

Dubbed the body in the bag killer, Green murdered 2 people. His second victim was back packer Clive Tully, whose body he dissected and placed in a holdall and ruck sack. It was the first-time major new advances in forensic face mapping technology were used to identify a victim.

In the Summer of 1998, maniac fisher murdered two women, eating the flesh of one of his victims. It was a crime that puzzled detectives for decades until one day out of the blue, Fisher confessed.

Campbell ran a monkey Sanctuary. It was a mutual love of monkeys that saw him seduce a woman called Margret Johnson. Yet Margret soon began an affair and Jack would take a deadly revenge against her lover - and the monkeys.

Michael Ross was just 15 when he burst into a restaurant on Orkney wearing a balaclava, shot Shamsuddin Mahmood in the face and fled. When the police caught up with him a decade later, he was a Black Watch Sgt, guarding HM the Queen.

Plytnykas was a Lithuanian, ex Red Army soldier who worked as an agricultural migrant worker in Scotland. He became obsessed with and murdered a fellow migrant worker. Her severed head was found by children on a Scottish beach.