The bedroom killer peter manuel essay

Peter Manuel was released from Peterhead Prison in 1953 at the age of 26, and it seemed that perhaps he was really was a reformed man when he met and became engaged to a young woman named Anna O’Hare in 1954. Anna worked as a us conductress at the bus terminus at the Mossend goods yard where Manuel worked, and knew nothing about his criminal past.

Peter Manuel was the second of three children to be born to Samuel and Bridget Manuel. Surprisingly, he was born in the Misere Cordia Hosptial in Manhattan, New York on 15 March 1927. His parents had emigrated to America to seek a better life during the Depression of the 1920’s.

Two days before the murder of the Watt family, Peter Manuel had broken into a neighbouring house, No.18 Fennsbank Avenue, owned by retired sisters Margaret and Mary Martin.

Peter Thomas Anthony Manuel was born in New York on March the 15th 1926 to Scottish parents. Five years later, in 1932, the family returned to Scotland and set up home in Motherwell. By the age of 10 Manuel was considered a juvenile delinquent and served his first term in custody at age 15 for sexual assault.