Palestinian cartoonist Naji Al-Ali was shot dead in Knightsbridge on 27 July 1987. The 49 year-old was attacked as he walked to his office in Ives Street at around 5.10pm. Witnesses said they saw two men approach the 49 year-old outside the office of the Kuwaiti newspaper al-Qabas at around 5pm. Mr al-Ali was shot once in …
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On Thursday, 20 June 20 1946, actress Margery Gardner, 42, met a handsome 29 year-old pilot named Neville Heath. Heath passed himself as a decorated Second World War veteran but his relatively short life was marked by dishonesty and deception. A former private schoolboy, he had joined the RAF only to be dismissed in September …
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“Cannibalism is normal. It’s been here for centuries…” So said serial killer Peter Bryan as he boasted how he had fried one of his victim’s brains in Clover butter. Bryan believed that the human body was a natural food source that made him stronger. He told one psychiatrist he hoped… You must be a paid …
On 14 February 1888, a 27 year-old chimneysweep’s widow named Elizabeth Gorman died in suspicious circumstances at her home at 4 Callow Street, Fulham Road, Chelsea. According to witnesses, Mrs Gorman had called a series of medical men to see her in the days before her death. But when asked… You must be a paid …
