Fashion designer Aristos Constantinou was shot dead at his home in Hampstead on 1 January 1985. The 40 year-old tycoon was attacked shortly after he returned home from a New Year’s Eve party with his wife Elena. He was shot six times at close range with an Italian-made Fiocchi gun using nickel-jacketed bullets – leading …
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Will we see a post-Covid surge in London murders?
Homicides in 2022 (so far) are down compared to previous years, despite a surge in recent weeks.
Murder at The Island: Christopher Lombard
Christopher Lombard was shot dead while working at the Island Nightclub in Ilford High Road, east London, on 1 December 1996.
Murder in Suburbia: The unsolved case of James Durrant in 1988
A 74-year-old retired solicitor was beaten to death after returning home from a meeting of a Masonic lodge in October 1988. Was he killed by someone he knew?
Missing, presumed murdered: James Harmon
James Harmon was 30 when he went missing in east London in 1998. Police believe he was murdered. Do you know what happened to him?