On the evening of Sunday, April 15th, 2007, fifty-four-year-old Alan Sheard was walking along Leeds Road in the Thornbury area of Bradford, England. Before the night was over, he became involved in a confrontation that would prove fatal. Alan had been drinking and socializing in local pubs before beginning the walk home along Leeds Road, … More Alan Sheard
On the evening of July 10th, 2007, twenty-three-year-old Colin Marr died from a single stab wound to the chest at the home he shared with his fiancée in Lochgelly, Fife, Scotland. Although police quickly concluded that Colin had taken his own life, his family has spent nearly two decades challenging that assumption, arguing that the … More Colin Marr
Thirty-three-year-old Xiong Zhang was a Chinese national who had come to the United Kingdom seeking economic opportunity. Like many undocumented immigrants, he survived by working in the informal economy. Investigators later revealed that Zhang sold counterfeit DVDs near the River Roding in Barking, East London, a trade that exposed him to both criminal competitors and … More Xiong Zhang
Sixteen-year-old Jonathan Matondo had been born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo before moving to England with his family when he was a young child. By all accounts from relatives and church leaders, he was a bright, personable teenager with a strong religious faith. Members of the Light of Christ Church in Burngreave remembered … More Jonathan Matondo
On the evening of November 14th, 2007, seventeen-year-old Etem Celebi was shot and killed just yards from his family home on the Smalley Close Estate in Stoke Newington, Hackney, North London. His death became one of the defining tragedies of London’s surge in teenage gun and knife violence during 2007, a year in which more … More Etem Celebi
In the mid-summer months of 2007, a quiet residential street in South Woodford, northeast London, became the scene of one of the city’s more unusual and disturbing unsolved homicides. The attack occurred during the early morning hours of Sunday, August 5th, on Priory Close, a residential cul-de-sac in South Woodford. Twenty-four-year-old Daraj Asghar was seated … More Daraj Asghar
On the morning of April 21st, 2007, sixty-one-year-old Henry McHarron was carrying out a routine newspaper-delivery route in north Liverpool, England. It was work he had done many times before: stopping his van, unloading bundles of newspapers and moving on to the next destination while most of the city was still waking. That morning, however, … More Henry McHarron
Forty-seven-year-old Diane Carrington lived in a first-floor flat at 24E Fern Court on Drakefell Road, New Cross, southeast London with her fifteen-year-old daughter. During the night of October 4th, 2007, someone targeted the home with extraordinary violence. According to investigators, gasoline was poured through the front door letterbox before being deliberately set alight. The fuel … More Diane Carrington
Kellie Telesford was a forty-year-old transgender woman originally from Trinidad who had lived in the United Kingdom for many years. Born Kayiode Dexter Telesford, she had been living openly as a woman for several years before her death and was known by friends and acquaintances simply as Kellie. She was a familiar face within London’s … More Kellie Telesford
In the early hours of May 12, 2007, a devastating attack at a travelers’ site in the Cambridgeshire village of Murrow left one woman dead, her husband critically injured, and investigators facing a case that remains unresolved despite an arrest and a murder trial. The victim, seventy-one-year-old Lavinia Branch, was living with her husband in … More Lavinia Branch
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