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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The unsolved murder of retired teacher Joy Hewer in 1995
Joy Hewer, 52, was sexually assaulted and stabbed to death at her own home on 17 October 1995. The retired primary school teacher was found dead at around 11.45pm after police and firefighters were called to a blaze at the sixth floor flat in St David’s Court, off Parkstone Road, Walthamstow, east London. Ms Hewer, …
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Who killed Darren Augustine?
The circumstances surrounding the death of Darren Augustine, 44, in west London in April 2023 remain unclear, an inquest heard. And was it murder or self defence?
Homicides in London 1990 to 2024
Basic homicide statistics for London show a peak in around 2003, similar to England and Wales as a whole.
Annabelle Lancaster death: ‘Foul play cannot be ruled out’
A young mother fell to her death from the eighth floor of a block of flats following an argument with her boyfriend, an inquest heard On the evening of 7 April 2019, Annabelle Lancaster was found injured outside Brookbank in Turkey Street, Enfield. The 22-year-old receptionist, who had a young… You must be a paid …
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