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Peter Griffiths was a 22-year-old who raped and killed June Anne Devaney, a 3-year-old girl, in 1948. He was the first person to be convicted of murder based on fingerprint evidence in the UK.
Nov 13, 2009 · On August 11, police caught up with one of these men, Peter Griffiths. His footprints matched the ones found at the scene. When his fingerprints also came back a match, he confessed to the awful...
Peter Griffiths was a British Conservative politician who won the Smethwick seat in 1964 by using anti-immigrant and racist rhetoric. He later became MP for Portsmouth North and taught economics at Portsmouth Polytechnic.
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Peter Griffiths was a 22-year-old packer who kidnapped, raped and killed a four-year-old girl in Blackburn, England, in 1948. He was caught after police fingerprinted over 20,000 men in the town and executed by hanging.
Peter Griffith was born on 23 October 1933 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was an actor, known for Halloween (1978), Suspense (1949) and Roads to Romance (1946).
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Oct 27, 2019 · Setting off to attend his night shift at 10pm on August 12, Peter Griffiths was arrested and taken to Blackburn Police headquarters. He initially denied all involvement in the harrowing events of June's murder but as soon as DCI Capstick told him about the fingerprint match Griffith's guise slipped.
Feb 3, 2020 · It transpired that 22-year-old Peter Griffiths, a former Welsh Guard, had raped and battered a three-year-old girl to death after taking her from a hospital room.
