Trevor Hardy

Infobox Serial Killer
name= Trevor Joseph Hardy


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birthname=Trevor Joseph Hardy
alias= The Beast in the Night
birth=1947
location= Moston, Manchester, Lancashire
death=
cause=
victims= 3
country= England
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beginyear= 1974
endyear= 1976
apprehended= 1976
penalty= Life Imprisonment

Trevor Joseph Hardy (born 1947 in Manchester, Lancashire) is a convicted serial killer.

He was found guilty in 1977 of murdering three teenage girls around the Manchester area, and was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Victims

Trevor Joseph Hardy murdered three girls between December 1974 and March 1976. Janet Lesley Stewart, 15, was murdered on New Years Eve 1974 and buried in a shallow grave in Newton Heath, North Manchester; She had been stabbed. Wanda Skala, 17, was murdered in July 1975 on Lightbowne Road, Moston; She was hit over the head with a paving stone and sexually assaulted. Sharon Mosoph, 17, was murdered in March 1976, and dumped in the Rochdale Canal at Failsworth, Oldham; She had been strangled and mutilated after walking by when Hardy was attempting to burgle a shopping centre at night.

He was suspected of committing other murders. At the height of the hunt for the serial killer, 23,000 people were stopped and searched [ [http://www.alexanderbaron.150m.com/drop-dead-doreen-lawrence-text.html Drop Dead, Doreen Lawrence: A Speech By Alexander Baron (Text) ] ] . The case is not widely known and only one independent publication exists which covers the case. [ cite book |title=Cause of Death |last=Garret |first=Geoffrey |authorlink=Geoffrey Garret |year=2001 |publisher=Constable and Robinson |location=Great Britain |isbn=978-1841192956 ]

Arrest & Trial

Trevor Hardy was arrested for the murders of Wanda Skala and Sharon Mosoph during 1976 and in August 1976. He confessed to the murders and to that of Janet Lesley Stewart - who until then had been a missing person. Despite the alibis provided by his partner Sheilagh Farrow [ cite book |title=Cause of Death |last=Garret |first=Geoffrey |authorlink=Geoffrey Garret |year=2001 |publisher=Constable and Robinson |location=Great Britain |isbn=978-1841192956 ] , Hardy was found guilty of the murders and sentenced to life imprisonment.

More than 30 years after his arrest, Hardy is still in prison and is currently serving his sentence at Wakefield Prison in West Yorkshire.

On 23 February, 2008, "The Times" revealed that Hardy was one of up to 50 prisoners in Britain who had been issued with a whole life tariff and were unlikely ever to be released. The whole life tariff was reaffirmed on 20 June 2008 by the High Court. [http://www.nemadvertiser.co.uk/news/s/1054833_life_means_life_for_beast_killer]

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