New dangerous cycling offence?

Which is all fine on the public highways, but who will police this on the towpath, how will it be proved some lycra wearing knob has been peddling dangerously?

After the accident, sadly.

Rog

GoPro type cameras have been a powerful tool for cyclists on roads, maybe pedestrians will start using them when there is a persistent cyclist endangering others.  Start saving for mine.....

The towpath is a dangerous place. I suggest CRT makes it obligatory for boaters to don an orange Hi-Viz jacket before stepping onto the towpath.

Cycling on the towpath can also be dangerous:

"The girls had been on a bicycle trip on Sunday, 31 May 1953, and were seen cycling along the towpath beside the River Thames at about 11am."

Towpath murders
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The towpath murders was a case that involved the murder of two teenage girls on the towpath near Teddington Lock on the River Thames, England, on 31 May 1953. Alfred Whiteway was hanged for the murders, which got a deal of press attention, the case being described at the time as "one of Scotland Yard's most notable triumphs in a century". At the trial defence counsel Peter Rawlinson had subjected lead detective Herbert Hannam to what was at the time considered a very sharp cross examination on Whiteway's contention that the main evidence against him had been manufactured by police.
Victims
The victims were 16-year-old Barbara Songhurst and 18-year-old Christine Reed. The girls had been on a bicycle trip on Sunday, 31 May 1953, and were seen cycling along the towpath beside the River Thames at about 11am. They failed to return home. Songhurst's body was found the next day floating in the river and Reed's body was found on 6 June after a section of canal was drained. Pathologist Keith Mant determined that both victims had been beaten, raped and killed with a hatchet.

Investigation
Alfred Charles Whiteway, separated from his wife and living with his parents in Teddington, was arrested a month later after the two separate rapes of women in Surrey. At first, he denied any involvement. Later, an axe was found hidden under the back seat of a police car in which he had apparently hid it upon being arrested following his arrest for the rape of a 14 year old girl and an attack on a woman in the Oxshott Heath and Woods. The axe was found at the house of a police constable, who was using it to chop wood. Forensic tests of the time could only inconclusively link traces of blood on the axe and Whiteway's shoes to the murders, but his signature to what police said was a confession taken down by them was crucial evidence for the prosecution. Whiteway however, always insisted he had been told to sign at the bottom of a blank sheet of paper and police had simply manufactured the confession.

Trial
Whiteway was tried at the Old Bailey in October and November 1953 before Mr Justice Hilbery. He was defended by solicitor Arthur Prothero, who instructed Peter Rawlinson, then a relatively junior barrister. Rawlinson cross-examined murder squad detective Herbert Hannam at length, opening large holes in his evidence of the confession, which Whiteway claimed was a work of fiction. Press reports complained at the implication that the police were lying. In view of police methods of the time, and Hannan's book expressing the opinion that the law sometimes must be ignored by detectives, subsequent commentary has thought it not unlikely that Whitehead had indeed been "verbaled".

On 2 November, after forty-five minutes of deliberation, the jury found Whiteway guilty. An appeal was heard by the Lord Chief Justice (Lord Goddard), Mr. Justice Sellers and Mr. Justice Barry but was rejected on 7 December. Whiteway was hanged at Wandsworth Prison on 22 December 1953. The axe is in the Black Museum at Scotland Yard.

  A pin in time gets nine!

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