Alfred Moore factfile

■■Alfred Moore and his family had previously lived on Gynn Lane at Honley before moving to Kirkheaton. ■■Moore appeared before Huddersfield magistrates’ court in 1947 accused of breaking into the Scapegoat Hill branch of the Co-op. No evidence was offered and he walked free. ■■Moore and his family moved to Whinney Close Farm in May 1951. ■■After the shooting, Army engineers spent 10 days searching the farm and surroundings using mine detectors but the murder weapon was never found. ■■In 2009 ex-policeman Steve Lawson named the late Clifford Mead - a Huddersfield car dealer and known criminal - as a possible suspect in the murders. Mead died in 1998. ■■According to Steve Lawson, in 1971 Mead showed friends a gun, raised it and said: “This is the gun that shot two coppers in Kirkheaton.” ■■Mr Lawson raised his concerns with a senior officer but says he was told to “let sleeping dogs lie.” ■■Mead’s son told Mr Lawson that he had found a handgun hidden in a dry-stone wall in Kirkheaton soon after the murder. His father was said to be ‘visibly shocked’ and told his son not to mention it again. ■■Mead’s wife recalled on the night of the murder he came home “in a right state” and Mr Lawson believes they shared a dark secret until the end of their lives. ■■A regular visitor to the Kirkheaton farm in the 1950s was a man who wore a white scarf - an item of clothing worn by the gunman, according to a statement provided by PC Jagger. The scarf was never found and it wasn’t mentioned at Moore’s trial.