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...murder, he was hastily excused. After 21 trial days and 70 witnesses later, the remaining eleven jurors brought in their verdict, ending the longest-and one of the most spectacular-murder trials in British legal history. Found guilty and sentenced to hang next week for the murder of Michael Gregsten last summer was James Hanratty, 25, a petty criminal and mental defective...
...Dear Mum." The case began on an August night in a cornfield off the highway, 20 miles west of London. There Gregsten, a married, 36-year-old research physicist, was parked with his girl friend, Valerie Storie, 23, a lab assistant. Suddenly a gun-toting man forced his way into the car and ordered Gregsten off on a wild drive through the countryside. Finally tiring of the joyride, the assailant had Gregsten pull the car off the A6 highway at a roadside parking area known as Deadman's Hill. There the attacker, startled by a sudden movement from Gregsten...
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