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Homicide victims in London in 2025
Total: 87 (last updated 18/2/26) Official total homicides recorded by Metropolitan Police: 97 See the map of London homicides in 2025 Note: This is not an official record and may differ from any lists compiled by police etc. It includes murder and manslaughter cases. This page will be regularly updated. We try to track each …
The unsolved murder of retired teacher Joy Hewer in 1995
Joy Hewer, 52, was sexually assaulted and stabbed to death at her own home on 17 October 1995. The retired primary school teacher was found dead at around 11.45pm after police and firefighters were called to a blaze at the sixth floor flat in St David’s Court, off Parkstone Road, Walthamstow, east London. Ms Hewer, …
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Who killed Darren Augustine?
The circumstances surrounding the death of Darren Augustine, 44, in west London in April 2023 remain unclear, an inquest heard. And was it murder or self defence?
‘Gang tensions’: The unsolved murder of Rhyhiem Barton
The teenager was shot dead in 2018 during a ‘postcode rivalry’ between two gangs centred around Camberwell (SE17) and Peckham (SE15) within the London borough of Southwark, an inquest heard. Police said three other murders were linked to the “Moscow 17” vs “Zone 2” feud.