A murder in Hackney?

[Lisarocket]

Not German Christine(R.I.P)'s house?
Her boyfriend, Steve used to live in the blue corner house along from the murder house around that time.

No. I was the only girl in the house. I lived at 135 (iirc) with a right fucked up bunch of wankers, apart from Billy (and his dog Jess) who had problems too, but he was always really nice to me and tried to look out for me a bit. I was only 19 at the time, so it was a bit of an eye opener living there. My first experience of aggressive alcoholics- we had 2 living there...and a couple of junkies. It definitely wasn't the best squat to be in at the time, but it was home

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Either because it was the murder of a poor person by a poor person in a poor area, at a time when there was plenty else to fill the pages, or because it's just so much harder to find sources for anything pre-1995 or so.

For example: my Grandmother's death certificate states that she was 'murdered, by person or persons unknown.' I've seen the certificate and know that this is a fact.

She died on the same day that Elvis died (so the paper were already full), and she was a poor alcoholic 60-something-year-old, beaten to death by strangers, who never gave any good news story because they were never found. Her story made it as far as the former Manchester Guardian - later the Guardian, whose long-ago archives are (at least as far as I can ascertain) not easy to access.

So a big event in ordinary people's lives, such as a murder, can happen and not be available online or through library/public record searches, because it was never newsworthy enough or, simply, because it was before easily-accessible archiving.

For sure, murders often go unreported. When I lived in Brixton somebody was shot to death a few years outside my back door and it didn't make the papers.

What's different about this case was that there was a trial which had many the elements you would think would make it attractive to the sensationalist press, never mind the status of the victim. Yet they seem to have missed it.

 

[Jon Anonnon]

i squated on ellingfort rd for years and yeah he did it,my mate stu lived in the house in the 1990s and there was a body downstairs,the whole time