Harry Street

Harry Street (5 September 1927 – 29 September 2002) born in Castleford, was an English professional rugby league footballer of the 1940s and '50s, and coach of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, playing at representative level for Great Britain, England, and Yorkshire, and at club level for Castleford (guest), St. Helens ('A' team), Dewsbury, Wigan, Leeds, and Featherstone Rovers, as a centre, or loose forward/lock, i.e. number 3 or 4, or 13, during the era of contested scrums, and at club level has coached for Castleford, and Bradford Northern, he died in Huddersfield.

Playing career

International honours

Harry Street won caps for England while at Dewsbury in 1950 against Wales (2 matches), and France, while at Wigan in 1951 against France, in 1952 against Wales, in 1953 against France, and won caps for Great Britain while at Dewsbury in 1950 against Australia (3 matches), and New Zealand.

Only five players have played test matches for Great Britain as both a back and a forward, they are; Colin Dixon, Frank Gallagher, Laurie Gilfedder, Billy Jarman, and Harry Street.

Barry Williams (spree killer)

Barry Kenneth Williams (1944 – 24 December 2014), known since 1994 as Harry Street, was a British spree killer. A foundry worker who lived with his parents, he shot eight people in the English Midlands towns of West Bromwich and Nuneaton in the space of little over an hour on 26 October 1978, killing five. Following a high-speed car chase, he was arrested and in 1979 was convicted of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. He was detained in high-security hospitals under mental health legislation.

After being given a conditional release in 1994, he changed his name, moved to Wales, and married. In 2014, following allegations of harassment against his neighbours, he was convicted of further firearms offences. He was again ordered to be detained in a secure hospital, with little likelihood of release, and died in December 2014.

Background

At the time of his first offence, Williams was an unmarried foundry worker. He lived at 14 Andrew Road on the Bustleholme Mill estate in West Bromwich, West Midlands, England with his elderly parents, Hilda and Horrace, who owned and ran a metal polishing business in Birmingham.