File:Raymond Morris Identikit Wanted For MurderA.jpg

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Description This image depicts the Staffordshire Constabulary poster depicting the composite drawing of the prime suspect in the murder of Christine Anne Darby.
Author or
copyright owner
Staffordshire police artist, with assistance from Victor Whitehouse and Jeanne Rawlings
Source (WP:NFCC#4) Original publication: 5 September 1967

Immediate source: Not the Moors Murders, p. 105

Date of publication 25 October 1967 (nationwide)
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) Cannock Chase murders
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8) To illustrate the tactics used in the manhunt for the Cannock Chase Murderer a.k.a. the A34 Killer. This image/poster is unique in the annals of British murder investigations as this instance of usage was the first occasion a colour identikit was published by police in their efforts to identify a murder suspect.
Not replaceable with
free media because
(WP:NFCC#1)
* Unique image, contemporarily distributed to the public and disseminated via the media in 1967.
  • No free images of this suspect exist.
  • The actual suspect himself is now deceased.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3) * Image is 187x290px. Much larger versions of this image exist
  • Image is slightly cropped
  • Image is of a tinted hue, also making commercial use of reproduced copies of the image highly unlikely.
  • Intended solely for usage upon one sub-section of article
Respect for
commercial opportunities
(WP:NFCC#2)
* Image is a "wanted" poster, created back in 1967, and disseminated across the entire nation with the intention of maximum free public viewing.
  • Has also been widely distributed in various media forms, printed, via documentaries, and online, since.
  • Original author has been accredited, as have the two eyewitnesses who assisted the artist. Police force which commissioned the image has also been named.
  • The precise name I have given to the file, plus the nature of the content, make ambiguous usage of the image extremely unlikely
Other information


  • Image is a publicly-distributed wanted poster which has already been widely distributed in the media, via various methods, since 1967. In doing so, image has been displayed in a better visual quality, a higher resolution, un-cropped, and untinted.
  • The usage of this image upon only the English-language Wikipedia, to illustrate the manhunt for the perpetrator the article describes the crimes of relating to the deaths of,falls under the "Non-profit, educational" clause of the 'Fair Use' doctrine, currently upheld by U.S. law. (17 U.S.C. § 107.)
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Cannock Chase murders//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Raymond_Morris_Identikit_Wanted_For_MurderA.jpgtrue

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