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Four more bodies would be found in or near London in the same fashion over the next 16 years. The murders became known as the Thames Torso Murders. [14] 1876 Charles Bravo: Balham, London Bravo, a 30-year-old lawyer, was poisoned with antimony in April 1876 in a murder known as the Charles Bravo Murder or the Murder at the Priory. It took him ...
Crimewatch (formerly Crimewatch UK) is a British television programme produced by the BBC, that reconstructs major unsolved crimes in order to gain information from the public which may assist in solving the case.
The Murder of Stephen Lawrence; in 1993, 18-year-old South London student Stephen Lawrence is stabbed to death after being attacked by a gang of youths. Two local teenagers, Neil Acourt and Luke Knight, are accused of the murder, but the charges are later dropped, with the police and CPS citing a lack of evidence. A third suspect, Gary Dobson ...
In December 1985 George McPhee was convicted of the murder. However, the case was re-opened many years later and brought to the Appeal Court in 2003, when the jury overturned the conviction and McPhee was released. The murder is therefore now officially unsolved, although the police have decided not to hunt the killer anymore. [134] October 1984
This is an incomplete list of unsolved known and presumed murders in the United Kingdom. It does not include any of the 3,000 or so unsolved murders that took place in Northern Ireland because of the Troubles or any IRA attacks that took place in England. For a list of IRA victims see the following pages: The Disappeared, List of Bombings During the Troubles (contains Loyalist bombings also ...
Joey Thompson, who is now himself the victim of an unsolved murder, was a suspect. [245] January 2004 Nureni Sheikh Manchester Sheikh, a 19-year-old London student on a visit to Manchester for a wedding, was shot in the upper body outside a Moss Side café on 10 January 2004, likely as a result of being mistaken for another youth. [246] [247]
[15] [3] [13] Most of these murders were unknown to the interviewing officers. Detectives checked his descriptions of some of the killings and found they indeed matched details of unsolved murders that had occurred in and around London. [3] The first of the unsolved murders, was of 17-year-old German au pair Heidi Mnilk, murdered on 9 July 1973 ...
[171] [172] McGregor was a sex worker and links have been suggested between her death and the unsolved murders of other sex workers in Glasgow in the 1990s. [173] May 1993 Raymond Saunders Abbey Wood, London 41-year-old Saunders was shot dead on a caravan site in Abbey Wood on 9 May 1993.