A CAMPAIGNER raised fresh hopes of clearing a Huddersfield man’s name – 60 years to the day after he was executed for murdering two policemen.

There are also new suggestions that Alfred Moore was unlucky not to have been spared the gallows on the same day as King George VI was found dead on February 6, 1952.

Police suspected Moore was a prolific burglar of mills.

On the night of July 14, 1951, 10 officers surrounded his farmhouse at Cockley Hill, hoping to catch him returning home with his haul.

Two officers were shot while trying to arrest a man as he approached the house.

Det Insp Duncan Fraser, 45, died at the scene and Pc Gordon Jagger, 42, was rushed to Huddersfield Royal Infirmary.

Moore was arrested at his farmhouse a few 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.