The Iron Bar & the Shotgun: How Ernest Leslie Wright Killed Twice
A 68-year-old man in a balaclava walks up to a Bradford front door at dawn with a sawn-off shotgun. Six shots later, one man is executed and another barely escapes with his life.
But this was no ordinary pensioner.
Thirty-eight years earlier, Ernest Leslie Wright had beaten a man to death with an iron bar in a caravan on a Buckinghamshire airfield — then tried to burn the body while the victim’s pregnant wife watched. He served 26 years, was released on life licence… and killed again.
In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander Lawson tells the full story of a manipulative double…
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