The Romford outrage

By Linda Rhodes

Subjects: Death and burial, Investigation, Police murders, Murder, History, Murder victims

Description: Inspector Thomas Simmons was murdered near Romford in 1885, and the search for his killers culminated in a second police murder, this time in Cumbria. In tracing the course of the crime, the characters and methods of Simmons and his fellow officers are revealed, as are the desperate criminal careers of the killers.