A 20-year-old student who was shot dead at a house in Edmonton was an innocent victim and not the intended target, an inquest heard.
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Mistaken Identity: The unsolved murder of David Adegbite
An 18-year-old student who was shot dead on a housing estate in Barking was ‘in the wrong place at the wrong time’, an inquest heard. The anonymous 999 call came in from an unregistered pay-as-you-go phone at 7.09pm on 19 March 2017. A man told the operator that his friend… You must be a paid …
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‘A History of Violence’: The Killing of Tracey Kidd
Paul Vissers could serve just four years in prison after prosecutors decided to drop a murder charge and accept a plea to manslaughter. Why? At 4.15pm on 17 March 2020 Paul Vissers, a 40-year-old drug user with a criminal record, walked into Stoke Newington to report that he had found… You must be a paid …
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Unlocking the evidence: How police try to ‘hack’ phones seized in murder cases
Somewhere within the Metropolitan Police there is a laboratory full of mobile phones gathered during criminal investigations. Some of those phones were taken from murder suspects. Others belonged to murder victims. They all have one thing in common: they might contain crucial information that could help solve a crime. The… You must be a paid …
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The Lockdown Effect (Part Two)
Murders in London decreased by around 20% during the past year of Covid restrictions compared to the previous year. How? And why? This post is a follow-up to our previous look at the effect of lockdown restrictions on homicides (murder and manslaughter) in London during the initial 50 day period… You must be a paid …