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 have never been traced. Did they attack someone else there two days earlier? And who made the anonymous 999 call?
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The unsolved murder of Sami Sidhom: ‘He did nothing wrong’
The 18-year-old student was walking home from watching a West Ham football match when he was chased and stabbed to death by at least three people. Was he unwittingly caught up in a gang dispute and targeted by mistake? His family are still waiting for answers and justice.
‘We fear he may have been murdered’: The disappearance of Lee Boxell in 1988
The parents of a missing 15-year-old boy from Sutton, south London, are appealing for help locating his remains so they can finally say goodbye to their son. Crimestoppers are offering a £20,000 reward for information.
Unsolved: The disappearance of Lisa Pour in 2013
Police launch murder investigation ten years after 40-year-old mother-of-three vanished without trace.
DNA breakthrough solves 1974 killing of Eileen Cotter
The killing of 22-year-old Eileen Cotter in north London remained unsolved for nearly 50 years. She was found strangled in courtyard next to a block of garages behind Hamilton Park in Finsbury Park just after 2pm on 1 June 1974. Her underwear and tights had been pulled down and her handbag, glasses and shoes were …
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