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Competition page Lottery Results The winners for May 2020: 1st prize (£100) Clive Wood (Leicestershire Branch); 2nd prize (£60) Dennis Walland (Warwickshire & Coventry Branch); 3rd prize (£40) Elaine Malcolm (York Branch). April 2020: 1st prize (£100) Mike Vince (Thames Valley Branch); 2nd prize (£60) Mark Kernohan (Northern Ireland-Greater Belfast Branch); 3rd prize (£40) Clive Wood (Leicestershire Branch). March 2020: 1st prize (£100) Clive Wood (Leicestershire Branch); 2nd prize (£60) Douglas Skate (Cambridgeshire Branch); 3rd prize (£40) Peter Spencer (Wiltshire Branch). Puzzles The prizes for this edition are The History of Gibbeting: Britain’s Most Brutal Punishment , by Samantha Priestley and Sheffield’s Most Notorious Gangs , by Ben W Johnson. Solve the puzzle/s and send them in. The lucky winners will be drawn out of the hat. Send the complete puzzles to: ‘Puzzles’, International Police Association, IPA HQ, Section UK, 1 Fox Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham, NG2 6AJ or as a scan by email to mail@ipa-uk.org marked ‘Puzzles’. Deadline for entries is: 14 September 2020. EntryForm OverLeaf

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Vol 65, Edition 2 Winners: David Stamp (Region 11/Sussex Branch) wins the Sudoku and Investigating the Almost Perfect Murders . Michael King (Region 5/Staffordshire Branch wins the crossword and Out of the Blue: Police strike 1919 .

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About the books The History of Gibbeting: Britain’s Most Brutal Punishment , by Samantha Priestley The history of gibbeting is the story of one of Britain’s most brutal forms of punishments, the hanging of criminals in a body shaped metal cage as a warning and as a form of justice. From the folklore of live gibbetings to the eerie historical documenting of this weird post-execution tradition, The History of Gibbeting examines how and why we dealt with murderers and other serious criminals in this way. Whether gibbeting was ever a successful deterrent, it is still a fascination today and gibbet cages remain on display in museums all over the country. Sheffield’s Most Notorious Gangs , by Ben W Johnson The returning heroes had been forgotten by their country. Men who had risked life and limb in the WWI trenches had no choice but to fight again. Reduced to marching with motley suburban regiments, these returned to fight on the streets of the Steel City. Rifles had been replaced with razors, and bayonets with butcher s knives. This time, the enemy was society itself, more often than not represented by the under-staffed and under siege police force. Money would be made, blood would be shed, and lives would be lost. Sheffield was a city at war with itself, as opposing gangs battled daily for control of the inner city streets. Only a show of brute force from the authorities could return order to the city. But, for one former soldier in particular, this shift of power arrived too late.

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