On the afternoon of Friday September 21, 2001, passers-by spotted an brightly-coloured object floating in the water past the Tower of London and under Tower Bridge. It was recovered by the Metropolitan Police near the Globe Theatre and found to be the body of an African boy, aged five or six. His head and limbs …
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Mistaken Identity: The unsolved murder of David Adegbite
An 18-year-old student who was shot dead on a housing estate in Barking was ‘in the wrong place at the wrong time’, an inquest heard. The anonymous 999 call came in from an unregistered pay-as-you-go phone at 7.09pm on 19 March 2017. A man told the operator that his friend… You must be a paid …
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The Regent’s Park Bombing of 1982
Seven military bandsmen were killed by an IRA bomb in Regent’s Park on 20 July 1982.
The unsolved murder of Lynne Weedon
Lynne Weedon, 16, was raped and beaten to death near her home in Hounslow, west London, in 1975. Her case remains unsolved but has been linked to the killing of Eve Stratford six months earlier. Lynne was on her way home after an evening out with friends and was attacked after entering an alleyway called The …
The Bunny Girl Murder: Eve Stratford
Model Eve Stratford, 21, was murdered in her own home in Leyton, east London, on 18 March 1975.