AN ANTI-GARROTTING PISTOL
Mar 12, 2020
2 minutes
BY MARK MURRAY-FLUTTER
HE formation of the London Metropolitan police in 1839 occasioned a general fall in crime in the capital over the following two decades. But the fear of crime persisted, thanks to instances of murder, robbery and violence, and their lurid reporting by the newspapers. In particular, the so-called ‘garrotting’ cases, where a robber strangles his victim, often using their arm or a
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