Name: Donald Hume: Notorious Bank Robber and Double Murderer
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Author: Jonathan Oates
ISBN: 9781526769664

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Donald Hume: Notorious Bank Robber and Double Murderer

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Pen & Sword True Crime

Author

Jonathan Oates

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

240

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781526769664

Synopsis "Donald Hume: Notorious Bank Robber and Double Murderer "

The trial of the year in 1950 was of Donald Hume, a North London petty thief accused of stabbing car dealer Stanley Setty to death, of cutting up his corpse and dropping his body parts from an aeroplane. The press and public were horrified and fascinated by the details. But Hume was convicted and gaoled as an accessory - he later claimed his wife was guilty of the crime. He then fled Switzerland, taking up with a Swiss woman in Zurich, but he needed money to finance his lavish lifestyle and he returned to robbery. He carried out two armed robberies, shooting a member of the bank staff, but getting clean away. Then in 1959 his attempt to rob a bank failed and he shot dead a bystander. Arrested, he stood trial and was sentenced to life, but was later deemed criminally insane and was returned to Britain and to Broadmoor. Jonathan Oates's compelling account of Hume's notorious life of crime is based on extensive primary research. It sheds new light on Hume and his crimes, especially the murder of Setty, and gives the reader a rare insight into the criminal underworld of the time.

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