Age: 18 (23 after sentence)
Sex: male
Crime: manslaughter (repeat offender)
Date Of Sentence: 9 Nov 1977 (for 5 years)
End Of Full Sentence: 9 Nov 1982
Place: London and Redcar
Source: discovery.nationalarchives.co.uk
Anthony Bottrill has a 1977 conviction for manslaughter and a 2000 conviction for murder.
In 1977 Dale Patrick Martin and Anthony Bottrill stabbed their gay male hosts after a meal of bacon and eggs in a London flat. He sentenced to 5 years.
In December 2000 Anthony Bottrill murdered Bryan Scott who he shot twice at close range with a shotgun at Kirkleatham Showground near Redcar.
Evidence against him included the fact that Bryan Scott was a drug dealer and Anthony Bottrill had had a relationship with the ex-wife of one of Bryan Scotts rival drug dealers.
He has continued to declare his innocence.
see National Archives - J 267/753
see "Soldiers jailed for killings." Times [London, England] 9 Nov. 1977: 6. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 26 Apr. 2015.
