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Matiu Ratana (3 May 1966 – 25 September 2020) was a New Zealand-born British police sergeant who was shot dead at Croydon police station in London on 25 September 2020. He was nearing retirement having served in the Metropolitan Police for nearly 30 years when he became the first police officer to be fatally shot in the UK since the murders of Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone in 2012.
The 1937 Croydon typhoid outbreak, also known as the Croydon epidemic of typhoid fever, [1] was an outbreak of typhoid fever in Croydon, Surrey, now part of London, in 1937. It resulted in 341 cases of typhoid (43 fatal), and it caused considerable local discontent leading to a media campaign and a public inquiry.
The murder of Tia Sharp (30 June 2000 – 3 August 2012) was a high-profile case of child murder in the United Kingdom. The victim was a 12-year-old girl, Tia Sharp, who was reported missing from and later found dead at her grandmother's home in New Addington, London, in August 2012.
The long running network true crime series "Dateline NBC" will air an episode April 12 on the recently solved 1991 murder of Joy Hibbs.
They were tried by jury before the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Goddard, at the Old Bailey in London between 9 December and 11 December 1952. Christmas Humphreys, Senior Treasury Counsel, led for the prosecution. [8] At the time of the burglary and Miles' death, murder was a capital offence in England and Wales.
The court heard Sansom had murdered before - having served nearly 20 years in prison for stabbing to death a minicab driver on Christmas Eve in 1998 and stealing his wallet. He was released on ...
The family of a teenage girl stabbed to death while making her way to a south London school have paid heartbreaking tribute to their “beautiful” 15-year-old.. GCSE student Elianne Andam was on ...
Agatha Christie's Death in the Clouds (1935) is a whodunnit in which a murder is committed on a flight from Le Bourget to Croydon, with Poirot on board. Francis Iles's Malice Aforethought (1931) is an earlier experiment in psychological suspense fiction.