Przejdź do głównej zawartości

#4 A Peculiar Character of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey





His mysterious death was supposed to be silent and left behind, in contrary, it caused mayhem and upheavals shortly after it occurred.



His noble background opened him the gate to British Parliament, He was very-well educated, he attended to Westminster School, graduated Christ Church, Oxford. In September 1666 he received a knighthood. Despite of being Protestant he had a significant number of his Catholic counterparts, including the Duke of York, the future king James II.



Unfortunately not every alley he made was a good one, he was pronounced a member of so-called ‘Peyton Gang’ which was closely associated with Green Ribbon Club. The Club’s members wanted to force the king Charles II to turn to Catholicism and abandon Protestantism. Efforts were futile. The plot was simple, meant to shake off the kingdom and set up the republic, what could be simpler?  - Failure, perhaps. Richard Cromwell unsuccessfully prepared the details. He was crushed by the government.



In 1678 there were another plans to resign from Monarchy – the Republic according to modern European standards was the perfect match. For that reasons Godfrey made allies with Titus Oates, they both invented the Popish Plot. The plans failed, once again, Godfrey was feeling unavoidable end of his ‘espionage career’- his feelings were right, he thought he would be arrested, instead, he was assassinated. The event took place in his place, there was no sigh of a fight or a struggle. It was presumed that the murder must have been done by someone he knew or befriended with. There was any robbery done, furthermore, his money and jewelry reminded intact.  The way it was done was brutal and unprecedented. He was found dead, with his body covered with bruises, his neck was broken, he was strangled, and impaled by his own sword.




The theories why he was murdered, why he was murdered in that particular way multiplied over the centuries, though, it has never been found why and who. For sure it must have been a political murder, one of many in Monarch England.

Komentarze

Prześlij komentarz

Popularne posty z tego bloga

Deaths from Firearms

The correct handling of a death from gunshot wounds begins at the scene. Here valuable evidence on the body can be lost or altered and bogus evidence may be inadvertently introduced through mishandling of the body. Before a body is touched, its position and appearance should be documented photographically and diagrammatically. The most important rule at the scene is to handle the body as little as possible so as not to dislodge trace evidence that may be clinging to garments or to the body surface. Hands should never be pried open, and fingerprints should never be taken at the scene. Fingerprint ink can either mimic or obscure powder soot as well as introducing contaminating materials that may render subsequent examination of the hands for primer residues of questionable validity. Manipulation of the hands is of even greater potential danger if it is done by a police officer who, theoretically, can transfer primer residues from his hands to those of the deceased....
Prześlij komentarz
Czytaj więcej

# 15 Željko Ražnatović

Željko Ražnatović was born on 17 April 1952 – 15 January 2000 and known as Arkan , was a Serbian career criminal and commander of a paramilitary force in the Yugoslav Wars, called the Serb Volunteer Guard. He was enlisted on Interpol's most wanted list in the 1970s and 1980s for robberies and murders committed in a number of countries across Europe, and was later indicted by the UN for crimes against humanity for his role during the wars. Ražnatović was up until his death the most powerful crime boss in the Balkans. He was assassinated in 2000, before his trial. Željko Ražnatović was born in Brežice, a small border town in Slovenian Styria, FPR Yugoslavia. His father, Veljko Ražnatović, served as a decorated officer in the SFR Yugoslav Air Force, earning high rank for his notable World War II involvement on the Partisan side, and was stationed in Slovenian Styria at the time of Željko's birth. He spent part of his childhood in Zagreb (SR Croatia) and Pan...
Prześlij komentarz
Czytaj więcej