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.
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Innocent victim of a ‘Postcode War’? The unsolved murder of Joshua Bwalya
The murder of a 17-year-old student in east London bore the hallmarks of a gang attack, an inquest heard
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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Investigating an unexplained death: The case of Steven Jones
When a decomposed body was found inside a flat, the police initially suspected murder.
This is the story of how detectives tried to uncover the truth.