Llangolman

Although John Cooper had no official record of criminal activity at the time of the deaths at Llangolman in 1976, Dr Sims thinks it is likely that he was responsible for other serious crimes long before the Scoveston Park murders in 1985. Cooper was 40 ...

Dr Clive Sims questions the verdicts reached at inquest into the deaths of Griff and Patti Thomas at their farmhouse in Llangolman in 1976. Cooper was jailed in May for the murders of Richard and Helen Thomas and Peter and Gwenda Dixon in the 1980s.

IT WAS a tragedy that stunned the quiet village of Llangolman in north Pembrokeshire in December 1976. A seemingly placid and deeply religious man in his 70s had apparently battered his sister to death before burning to death in circumstances that have ...