2 January 1938 (+) is born in Glasgow, United Kingdom.

16 July 1952 (x) is charged with housebreaking in Glasgow, United Kingdom.

29 November 1954 (x) is charged with theft and housebreaking in Glasgow, United Kingdom.

9 November 1955 (x) is charged with the theft of lead seals from banana boxes in Manchester, United Kingdom.

10 January 1956 (x) is transferred from Holloway Prison in Hatfield, United Kingdom.

14 November 1957 (x) is released from the borstal after serving two years for theft in Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom.

16 February 1959 (x) starts working as a stock clerk in Manchester, United Kingdom.

8 October 1965 (x) is charged with the murder of Edward Evans in Hyde, United Kingdom.

7 May 1966 (x) enters the first day of his three life sentences in Durham, United Kingdom.

23 June 1985 (x) confesses to the murders of Pauline Reade and Keith Bennett in a newspaper article by Fred Harrison in Market Harborough, United Kingdom.

3 July 1987 (x) visits the Moor in an attempt to locate the body of Keith Bennett in Saddleworth Moor, United Kingdom.

15 May 2017 (-) dies of lung cancer in Liverpool, United Kingdom.