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.
Category archives: Court Reports
Off The Map: Edvinas Lukosevicius
The death of a Lithuanian man in Hounslow was initially treated as a suspected murder. More than a year later a coroner concluded the case was “alcohol-related”.
Double jeopardy: The murder of Jacqueline Montgomery in 1975
Killer Dennis McGrory got away with the murder of his teenage niece for nearly 50 years before a review of the case secured new DNA evidence linking him to the crime
Chokehold: The tragic death of Melvin Trotman
A 37-year-old property developer died after being restrained during a fight in Chadwell Heath, east London. The inquest revealed why nobody was prosecuted and why the case was not treated as a homicide.
‘I can’t breathe’: The death of Ian Taylor
What began as an investigation into a suspected murder revealed an asthmatic 54-year-old black British man was failed by police officers who described his complaints of breathing problems as ‘a load of nonsense’