Homicides in 2022 (so far) are down compared to previous years, despite a surge in recent weeks.
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Chokehold: The tragic death of Melvin Trotman
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.
Murder in Suburbia: The unsolved case of James Durrant in 1988
A 74-year-old retired solicitor was beaten to death after returning home from a meeting of a Masonic lodge in October 1988. Was he killed by someone he knew?
Missing, presumed murdered: James Harmon
James Harmon was 30 when he went missing in east London in 1998. Police believe he was murdered. Do you know what happened to him?
‘I can’t breathe’: The death of Ian Taylor
What began as an investigation into a suspected murder revealed an asthmatic 54-year-old black British man was failed by police officers who described his complaints of breathing problems as ‘a load of nonsense’