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Name: |
Trevor Joseph Hardy |
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AKA: |
Beast in the Night
Beast of Manchester |
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D.O.B. |
1947 |
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Kill Total: |
3 + |
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Kill date: |
31st
December 1974
15th July 1975
12th March 1976 |
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Kill Place: |
Manchester |
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Status: |
Single |
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Victim: |
Janet Stewart
Wanda Skala
Sharon Mosoph |
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D.O.B. |
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Court: |
Manchester
Crown Court |
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Judge: |
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1972, aged 31, Hardy was jailed for five years for
wounding a man with a pick-axe.
18th November 1974, He was released from the Isle of Wight's
Albany Jail.
31st December 1974, Trevor Hardy murdered Janet Lesley
Stewart aged 15, she was murdered on New Years Eve and
buried in a shallow grave in Newton Heath, North Manchester;
She had been stabbed.
July 1975, Wanda Skala aged 17, was murdered on Lightbowne
Road, Moston; just yards from her home. She was hit over the
head with a paving stone and sexually assaulted, he also bit
off one of her nipples. She had been walking home from work
in a local hotel bar. Her naked body was found partially
buried on a local construction site.
Hardy was arrested for the murder of Wanda, but his partner
gave him a false alibi, and he had work done on his teeth so
that they would not match the bite marks found on Wanda's
body, he was therefore set free.
March 1976, Sharon Mosoph aged 17, was murdered and dumped
in the Rochdale Canal at Failsworth, Oldham; Hardy came
accross her after she was walking by when Hardy was
attempting to rob a shopping centre at night.
She had been strangled with a pair of tights and her body
stripped naked and mutilated, one of her nipples had been
bitten off.
August 1976, Hardy was arrested for the two murders of Wanda
Skala and Sharon Mosoph, he confessed to both, he also
confessed to the murder of Lesley Stewart, the police had no
idea, and had Lesley listed as a missing person.
2nd May 1978, At Manchester Crown Court, Hardy sacked his
defence barrister and defended himself, He pleaded guilty to
manslaughter as the lesser charge to murder, the plea was
rejected.
He was given three life sentences. Police confirmed he was
suspected of committing other murders.
23rd February 2008, The Times newspaper revealed that Hardy
was one of up to 40 prisoners in Britain who had been issued
with a whole life tariff and who were unlikely ever to be
released from prison. See List here>>
25th September 2012, Hardy died from a heart attack, while
serving a life sentence at HMP Wakefield, he was 67. |
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