Fourteen-year-old schoolgirl Tracey Meade went missing nearly two weeks before she was found dead in the Grand Union Canal near Kensal Green on 1 February 1992. Tracey had been stabbed twice, in the arm and stomach, before drowning in the water. She was only partly dressed, leading police to suspect a sexual motive in her …
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On the morning of 11 January, 1888, two-year-old Percy Ostler was being looked after by his heavily-pregnant mother, Louisa, and her sister Henrietta Brown, at their basement flat below a chemist’s shop at 55 Trafalgar Road in Greenwich, south London. At around 10.45am, Miss Brown decided to go out briefly… You must be a paid …
Police sergeant Robert Golding was patrolling along Poplar High Street with a colleague at around 4.15am on 20 December 1888 when he noticed a woman lying on her left side in Clarke’s Yard. There was no obvious sign of any injury to the body. It was only when the woman… You must be a paid …
Murder is down in London during the last 50 days – but is that because of the coronavirus restrictions?
One night did more than any other to establish the legend of ‘Jack the Ripper’. In the space of three-quarters of an hour in the early hours of September 30, 1888, two women were found lying on the ground with their throats cut. The first, Elizabeth Stride, in Whitechapel, and… You must be a paid …
