THE daughters of a Huddersfield man hanged for a double police murder are demanding justice – 60 years to the day after the shooting at their Kirkheaton farmhouse.

Alfred Moore’s three surviving daughters – Patricia, 69, Tina, 62, and 61-year-old Bronwynne – are desperate for an answer from justice investigators.

They have been working with former detective Steve Lawson, who has submitted a file on the case to the Criminal Cases Review Commission – the first step to an appeal.

Both Lawson and the Moore family want a decision on whether or not the case can go to appeal.

Moore was hanged for the murders of Det Insp Duncan Fraser, 45, and Pc Gordon Jagger, 42, who were fatally wounded at Cockley Hill farm in the early hours of July 15, 1951.

The two officers were part of a 10-man cordon around the farmhouse home of Moore, a known burglar.

Mr Lawson said: “They want to resolve this one way or the other – either the CCRC says the case is not going to appeal, or let’s get the conviction overturned.

“Patricia has told me she would like a piece of paper in her hand saying her dad didn’t do it.”

Mr Lawson, who was a detective in the West Riding Constabulary from 1968 to 1974, is trying to build public support to clear Moore’s name.

Police suspected the poultry farmer was also a prolific burglar of mills.

On the night of July 14 to 15, 1951 they surrounded his farmhouse hoping to catch him returning home with his haul.

The two officers were shot when they challenged a man as he approached the house around 2am. Det Insp Fraser died at the scene and Pc Jagger was rushed to Huddersfield Royal Infirmary.

Moore was arrested at his farmhouse three hours after the shooting – but the gun was never found.

One theory is that the killer fled, leaving Moore to take the blame.

As he lay dying in his hospital bed, Pc Jagger picked out Moore from a nine-man identity parade.

This evidence was crucial in securing the conviction of Moore, who was hanged at Armley Prison in Leeds in 1952.

Mr Lawson, 63, has been campaigning for four years for Moore’s conviction to be overturned.

He said yesterday: “I think it’s about time that people were aware that, at the very least, Alfred Moore, could not have had a fair trial. The trial was loaded against him from day one.”

Last year the Kirkheaton man persuaded the CCRC to investigate Moore’s conviction – the first step to clearing his name.

But yesterday Mr Lawson called on the commission to decide whether to send the case to the Court of Appeal.

“I dropped off the documentation with them two years ago,” he said.

“I don’t know what the CCRC is taking its time for.

“Huddersfield MP Barry Sheerman has also written to them about this. When you ask them when they will decide, their answer is basically ‘how long is a piece of string’.”

Mr Lawson is taking his campaign to the public.

He said: “I did my first talk at Kirkheaton Cricket Club last month.

“Twenty people came and we talked about the case for about an hour and a half. At the end not one of them put their hand up to say he was guilty.

“I’ve got another talk planned at The Cask in Kirkheaton.”

Mr Lawson is also looking for a publisher for the 230-page manuscript about the case.

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