Total: 5 (last updated 15/1/21) Note: This is not an official record and may differ from any lists compiled by police etc. It includes murder and manslaughter cases. Other deaths (e.g. unexplained) are listed separately afterwards. Eileen Dean, 93, was beaten to death with a walking stick at a care home in Canadian Avenue, Catford. […]
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Burnt Out Cars: Sign of the Crimes
At least 500 vehicles are set on fire in London every year. Some of them were destroyed to cover up their use in murders and other serious offences.
Year of the Ripper: Percy Ostler
On the morning of 11 January, 1888, two-year-old Percy Ostler was being looked after by his heavily-pregnant mother, Louisa, and her sister Henrietta Brown, at their basement flat below a chemist’s shop at 55 Trafalgar Road in Greenwich, south London. At around 10.45am, Miss Brown decided to go out briefly… You must be a paid […]
Year of the Ripper: Rose Mylett
Police sergeant Robert Golding was patrolling along Poplar High Street with a colleague at around 4.15am on 20 December 1888 when he noticed a woman lying on her left side in Clarke’s Yard. There was no obvious sign of any injury to the body. It was only when the woman… You must be a paid […]
The Lockdown Effect
Murder is down in London during the last 50 days – but is that because of the coronavirus restrictions?