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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Homicide victims in London in 2025
Total: 89 (last updated 9/6/26) Official total homicides recorded by Metropolitan Police: 97 See the map of London homicides in 2025 Note: This is not an official record and may differ from any lists compiled by police etc. It includes murder and manslaughter cases. This page will be regularly updated. We try to track each …
Homicide in England and Wales 1898 to 2024
Official statistics show that the total number of homicides (murder and manslaughter) increased from the 1960s until around 2003 before dropping again – followed by a smaller peak in around 2017/18. What’s the explanation?
The murder of Michael Agyare: Suspect ‘hiding in Turkey’
Detectives told an inquest that the Turkish authorities refuse to extradite the man believed responsible for the fatal stabbing of a 24-year-old construction worker in Kingston-Upon-Thames
The death of Amanda Gretton: ‘We have many unanswered questions’
Police launched a murder investigation after the body of a 57-year-old artist was found in a disused garage seven weeks after she was reported missing. Her family told an inquest they were still waiting for a resolution after nearly 5 years.