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Western Telegraph on murder trail for 25 years

4:06pm Thursday 2nd June 2011

FORMER Western Telegraph news editor Doris Goddard remembers the terrible impact the double murders had on Pembrokeshire and recalls the police operations that eventually led to the capture of the county's most dangerous killer. A SHIVER went down my spine when news came through that John Cooper had been convicted of Pembrokeshire’s infamous double murders.

Relief for families as John Cooper is jailed

4:01pm Thursday 2nd June 2011

THE families of the four people murdered by John Cooper have expressed their relief that the person who tore their lives apart has finally been brought to justice.

DOUBLE MURDERS TRIAL: Police to look again at mysterious deaths following Cooper conviction

8:49am Friday 27th May 2011

Detectives will now look again at three mysterious deaths linked to Cooper.

DOUBLE MURDERS TRIAL: Officer brands Cooper 'evil'

1:57pm Thursday 26th May 2011

The man who has headed the investigation that has placed Cooper behind bars today branded him 'evil.'

DOUBLE MURDERS TRIAL: Timeline of investigations that spanned more than two decades

1:18pm Thursday 26th May 2011

The Pembrokeshire double murders investigations spanned more than 20 years.

Murder jury in third day of deliberations

11:10am Thursday 26th May 2011

THE jury in the trial of a Pembrokeshire man accused of killing four people with a shotgun in the 1980s was due to enter a third day of deliberations this morning (Thursday).

DOUBLE MURDERS TRIAL: Jury retires to consider murder verdicts

5:05pm Monday 23rd May 2011

The jury in the trial of John William Cooper, the farm labourer charged with multiple murders, have begun to consider their verdicts.

Cooper’s defence sum up their case

2:44pm Friday 20th May 2011

None of the descriptions of the killer of Oxfordshire holidaymakers Peter and Gwenda Dixon matched the man on trial, a jury heard yesterday.

Jury hears prosecution closing address in Cooper trial

4:48pm Thursday 19th May 2011

Farm worker John William Cooper would have been convicted of 30 burglaries and a violent robbery even faster if the jury had known about his lies, a court heard yesterday.