{"product_id":"the-pottery-cottage-murders","title":"The Pottery Cottage Murders","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA psychopathic criminal on the run from prison. A family of five held hostage in their home. A frantic police manhunt across the snowbound Derbyshire moors. Just one survivor.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe definitive account of the terrifying 1977 Pottery Cottage murders that shocked Britain.  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor three days escaped prisoner Billy Hughes played macabre psychological games with Gill Moran and her family keeping them in separate rooms of their home while secretly murdering them one by one. On several occasions Hughes ordered Gill and her husband Richard to leave the house for provisions confident that they would return without betraying him in order to protect their loved ones.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlizzards hampered the desperate police search but they learned where the dangerous convict was hiding and closed in on the cottage. A high-speed car chase on icy roads ended with a crash and the killer being shot as he swung a newly sharpened axe at his final victim. This was Britain's first instance of police officers committing 'justifiable homicide' against an escapee.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story of these terrible events is told here by Carol Ann Lee and Peter Howse the former chief inspector who saved Gill Moran's life over forty years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u0026gt;","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44791198384307,"sku":"9781472143921","price":559.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/blk_imp_17478121869781472143921.jpg?v=1762853857","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/the-pottery-cottage-murders","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}