garrotter


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Noun1.garrotter - someone who kills by strangling
choker, garroter, throttler, strangler
killer, slayer - someone who causes the death of a person or animal
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No one was stabbed, no one was kidnapped and no one took a wrong turn into the clutches of a gang of garrotters.
Doing a luissuarez: "bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny" - Edmund Burke (1729-1797), the Irish statesman and philosopher who moved to England and served in the house of commons
But villains stalking our own streets worried us more - we reported that Cardiff (like Liverpool) was a place where "professional garrotters plied their violent trade".
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Due to the public pressure, in 1862 Parliament passed (with undue haste) the Garrotters Act.
The Victorian origins of a 'Group 4' Prison Service

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