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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
[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.
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]
The murder of this woman, whose torso was found in a trunk at Brighton Station, is known as the Brighton Trunk Crime No. 1 (see Brighton trunk murders). In 2020, the BBC One documentary Dark Land: Hunting the Killers suggested that a man called George Shotton could have been the murderer.
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.
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 ...
The case remains unsolved despite one of the biggest police inquiries in the Bristol area, which was assisted by Scotland Yard. In 2010, on the fortieth anniversary of Green's murder, Avon & Somerset Constabulary announced that there was to be a new forensic investigation of the case that would use DNA profiling. [11] May 1970: Helen Kane ...
The murder indirectly gave rise to the working-class expression "sweet Fanny Adams" in the mid-20th century. 1946: Murder of Muriel Drinkwater: 1: Swansea, Wales: Muriel Drinkwater, 12, was raped and murdered in the woods in Penllergaer, Swansea. The case became known as the Little Red Riding Hood murder.