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 were only brought to justice 40 years later.
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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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‘Gang tensions’: The unsolved murder of Rhyhiem Barton
The teenager was shot dead in 2018 during a ‘postcode rivalry’ between two gangs centred around Camberwell (SE17) and Peckham (SE15) within the London borough of Southwark, an inquest heard. Police said three other murders were linked to the “Moscow 17” vs “Zone 2” feud.
Fugitive in Yemen: Farouk Abdulhak and the unsolved murder of Martine Vik Magnussen
Martine Vik Magnussen, 23, was found dead in a basement in Great Portland Street, central London, in March 2008.
The unsolved murder of James Akinwande in Brixton in 1994
Eighteen-year-old James Akinwande was chased and stabbed to death in the street after leaving The Vox nightclub in Brixton, south London, on 16 January 1994.