Monkseaton shootings

Title

Monkseaton shootings

Genre

News report; Interview; Press conference; Vox pop

TX Date

1 May 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:03:21

Description

Colleen(?) Cairns(?) reports on a mass shooting at Monkseaton, near Whitley Bay, North Tyneside, in which one man was killed and fourteen people injured. Speakers: eyewitness Jackie(?) Beattie(?); ambulanceman John Sampson, who talks about gun ownership; eyewitness William Dag; Detective Superintendent Bob Benton; PC Danny Herdman. The gunman was later named as Robert Sartin. Broadcast on Metro Radio.

Contributors

Metro Radio; Bob Benton; John Sampson; William Dag; Danny Herdman; Jackie(?) Beattie(?); Colleen(?) Cairns(?)

Keywords

Deaths; Crime; Police; UK; Great Britain; Homicide; England; Weapons; Guns; Firearms; Gun licensing; Robert Sartin; Monkseaton; North Tyneside; Kenneth Mackintosh

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