On Thursday, 22 June, 1995, Christine McGovern was found strangled in her flat in Walthamstow, east London. The 47 year-old lived alone with her Rottweiler dog at a flat at 53a Hamilton Road and was a known sex worker. She was last seen alive at around 6.30pm on June 21, 1995, in the street outside …
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Alan Holmes, a 53 year-old garage hand who worked at Kentish Town Police station, was tied up and left to die at his home in Camden, north London. He was dropped off by friends at his flat in Parkway at around midnight on Christmas Day 1995 but failed to report to work over the following week. …
Joy Hewer, 52, was stabbed and sexually assaulted at her own home on 17 October 1995. The retired primary school teacher was found dead after police and firefighters were called to a blaze at the sixth floor flat in St David’s Court, off Parkstone Road, Walthamstow, at around 11.45pm. Ms Hewer, a devout Christian, had …
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