Total: 51 (last updated 6/7/26) View the map of London homicides in 2026 Note: This is not an official record and may differ from any lists compiled by police and other authorities. It includes cases of murder and manslaughter. The following cases are not included: A 70-year-old woman was found dead at a residence in …
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Solved after 40 years: The murder of Anthony Littler
A 45-year-old civil servant was beaten to death in an alleyway behind East Finchley tube station as he walked home from a night out in 1984. The killers were only brought to justice 40 years later.
Homicide victims in London in 2025
Total: 89 (last updated 6/7/26) 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 …
Reece Tshoma: Unsolved Murder at a Music Studio
Unhelpful witnesses and poor CCTV footage hindered the police investigation into a fatal stabbing on a business estate in Plumstead, south London. Seven-and-a-half years on, an inquest heard the prime suspect fled the country a day after the killing
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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