Christopher Ainscough was 50 years old when he was found dead at his home in Windmill Court, Shoot-Up Hill, Kilburn, in December 1983. He had suffered head injuries at some point between the 2 and 5 December. The Metropolitan Police launched a murder investigation but were unable to identify his attacker. Tragically they were also never …
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Ricky Smith, 25, was stabbed to death in front of his partner in an unprovoked attack in Highbury, north London, on Friday, 3 October 1997. The couple were walking home from a kebab house when they were approached by the killer in Highbury Park near Hamilton Park just before midnight. Ricky was immediately stabbed in …
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Jack the Ripper has become the most famous serial killer in the world after spreading terror throughout London in the last years of the 19th century. His crimes have been pored over by untold numbers of experts and amateur sleuths – yet nobody has ever convincingly unmasked this notorious figure. Instead, conspiracy theories, myths and …
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On 27 July 1888 a two-year-old girl was left at the Royal Free Hospital in central London. The child’s name was Alice Bowden, but she was already dead. Her body was so thin an emaciated that she weighed only 8.5lbs, when a child of that age would normally weigh at… You must be a paid …
On the evening 16th May 1888, three boys were playing football in the street in Queen’s Park, northwest London. As usually happens, the ball ended up going over the fence into a resident’s garden and one of the boys entered through the gate to go and retrieve it. It was… You must be a paid …
