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Trevor Hardy's killing spree

Aged just 29, Trevor Hardy was jailed for attacking and wounding another man with a pickaxe to the head. After only serving 2 years out of a 5-year stint, he was released from Albany jail on the Isle of Wight on November 18th 1974. He vowed for revenge after he claimed that he was set up and that he would kill Stanley O'Brien (the man whom he had assaulted with a pickaxe) as well as Beverley Driver, an Ex-girlfriend of Hardy who had cut off contact with him at her parent's request which enraged him further. Upon his release, he had found out that O'Brien had died of natural causes which then, unfortunately, led to all of his frustration and caged up anger to be forced upon Beverley who at the time was still a teenager. A month after his release from prison, still on parole, Trevor Hardy committed his first murder on new year's eve 1974. After mistaking Janet Stewart (a 15-year-old) for Beverley Driver, Hardy got out of his car and stabbed her twice, once in the throat...