#322 - 'Fat Fred' - Part 2 of 2 (Malcolm Heaysman, Islington / Carmarthenshire)

#322 - 'Fat Fred' - Part 2 of 2 (Malcolm Heaysman, Islington / Carmarthenshire)

This is Part Two of Two of 'Fat Fred'.


On Monday 23rd of August 1971 at 9:40am, a gang of armed robbers stole £166,000 (£3.2 million today) from Preston’s Jewellers in Blackpool, and in their haste to escape, three officers were shot, many were injured, and Detective Superintendent Gerry Richardson was shot. The gang’s leader, Frederick Sewell, a gangster known as ‘Fat Fred’ was branded ‘Britain’s most hates man’ and hunted.


But what had this killing spree got to do with the murder of Malcolm Heaysman, co-owner of a fancy-dress shop in Islington outside of his remote farmhouse in Gwynfe near Llangadog, Carmarthenshire?


· Location #1: Preston’s Jewellers, 14 The Strand, Blackpool, Lancashire, UK

· Location #2: Godre Waun, Llangadog, Carmarthenshire, Wales, SA19

· Date: Monday 23rd of August 1971, at 9:40am (robbery and murder)

· Victims: Detective Superintendent Gerarld Richardson, Malcolm Heaysman

· Culprits #1: (robbery/murder): Frederick Joseph Sewell, Charles Haynes, George/Dennis Bond, John Patrick Spry and Thomas Flannigan

· Culprits #2: (murder of Malcolm): Roy Searl and (associate) Roy Owen Gibson


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