Editing James Hanratty (section)

==A6 Murder==
On August 22<sup>nd</sup>, 1961, Hanratty approached a parked Morris Minor Traveller driven by Michael Gregsten and his mistress Valerie Storie and pulled a gun on them, ordering them to let him get in the car. Hanratty then forced Gregsten and Storie to to drive him round the country, with seemingly no actual plan other than to antagonize them. At about 130am the following morning, the car was driving down the A6 when Hanratty ordered them to pull into a layby. He then tied Storie's hands together and ordered Gregsten to pass him a duffel bag full of clean clothing. When Gregsten turned to pass him the bag, Hanratty shot him twice in the head, killing him. Hanratty told Storie that Gregsten's sudden movement had startled him, then forced her to kiss him, before removing her clothes and raping her at gunpoint. After forcing Storie to remove Gregsten's body, Hanratty prepared to kill her, but she told him to take the car and leave. Hanratty began to walk back towards the car, before turning round and shooting Storie five times, leaving her paralysed. He then left in the car, unaware that Storie was still alive and would be found and saved by John Kerr and Sydney Burton several hours later.