Question: When did Gary Hanlon 's murderer confess to his crime ?

text: List of major crimes in the United Kingdom
Multiple murders

This is a list of major crimes in the United Kingdom that received significant media coverage or led to changes in legislation. Legally each deliberate and unlawful killing of a human being is murder; there are no crimes of assassination or serial killing as such, for example.
Date Name No . of Deaths Location Details
1865 The Edward William Pritchard case 2 ( + ) Glasgow , Scotland A doctor who was hanged for murdering his wife and mother-in-law by poisoning . He was also suspected of the murder of a servant but was never tried for it
1915 The George Joseph Smith case ( Brides in the Bath Murderer ) 3 Leicester , East Midlands , England George Joseph Smith , a con artist and polygamist , murdered three of his wives before being arrested and executed on 13 August 1915
1951-1952 The John Thomas Straffen case 3 Bath , Somerset , Broadmoor , England John Thomas Straffen who was the longest-serving prisoner in British legal history . He killed two young girls in the summer of 1951 . He was found to be unfit to plead and committed to Broadmoor Hospital ; during a brief escape in 1952 he killed again . This time he was convicted of murder and sentenced to death . Reprieved because of his mental state , he had his sentence commuted to life imprisonment and he remained in prison until his death more than 55 years later
1970-1974 The Ronald Jebson Murders 3 Epping Forest Greater London . England Ronald Jebson killed Susan Blatchford ( 11 ) , and Gary Hanlon ( 12 ) . Their bodies were discovered in a copse on Lippitts Hill , after they went missing from their homes in Enfield , north London , in March 1970 . 30 years after the murders , Jebson confessed to the crimes ; he was already serving a life sentence for the 1974 murder of 8-year-old Rosemary Papper . Jebson remained in prison until his death in April 2015
1985 The White House Farm murders 5 Near Tolleshunt D'Arcy , Essex , England The White House Farm murders took place near the village of Tolleshunt D'Arcy , Essex , on 7 August 1985 , when Neville Bamber , a farmer and magistrate , his wife June , their adoptive daughter , Sheila Caffell , and her six-year-old twin sons , were shot and killed during the night inside the Bambers ' farmhouse . After the murders , the ex-girlfriend of Neville and June 's adoptive son , Jeremy Bamber - the only surviving member of the immediate family - told police that Bamber had implicated himself . The prosecution argued that , motivated by a large inheritance , he had killed the family and placed the gun in his unstable sister 's hands to make it look like a murder-suicide , which the police had originally treated the crime as , and which had been widely reported in the media immediately afterwards
1993-2004 The Peter Bryan case 3 East London , England Peter Bryan is a cannibal who committed several murders between 1993 and 2004
2011 The Ding Family murders 4 Wootton , Northamptonshire England Four members of the Ding family , Professor Jifeng Jeff Ding , his wife Helen Chui and their daughters Xing and Alice , were found murdered at their home in Wootton at 6:00 pm on 1 May 2011 . They were thought to have been murdered two days earlier between about 3:00 pm and 4:00 pm , 29 April 2011 - the day of the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton and an additional Public Holiday . Anxiang Du , a businessman from Coventry who had been involved in a legal dispute with the Ding family , was named as the prime suspect in the case . Du fled the murder scene in the Ding 's rented car ; he drove to London and travelled to Paris by coach . He continued through France , Spain and finally to Morocco , prompting a worldwide manhunt . He lived in a partly built block of flats for 14 months before he was arrested and extradited to the UK . Du was tried at Northampton Crown Court in November 2013 . He was found guilty of the murders and was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 40 years
2014 The Grindr Murders 4 Barking , Essex Stephen John Port is a convicted serial rapist and serial killer , and is responsible for murdering at least four men and committing multiple rapes . Port received a life sentence with a whole life order on 25 November 2016 . Police announced they are now investigating at least 58 deaths connected to the use of gamma -Hydroxybutyric acid ( GHB ) in response to the Port case