Murder in King's Cross

King's Cross is in the London borough of Camden but it also borders the London borough of Islington.

It is located 2.5 miles north of Charing Cross. Its famous features includes the Terminus for Eurostar at St. Pancras International Station, The Platform 9 and 3 quarters at King's Cross Railway Station, The British Library, national rail services from King's Cross and underground tube services from most of the major tube lines.

It also features hotels, residential houses, shops and businesses including The Guardian newspaper.

This crime is known as The Camden Town Murder.

Phyllis Dimmock lived and worked as a prostitute near 1 Bidborough Street near King's Cross.

She was found on the morning of the 12th September 1907 in St Paul's Road, King's Cross with her throat cut. St Paul's Road is now known as Agar Grove. She was naked and her head almost completely severed.

Suspects include:

Robert William Thomas George Cavers Wood - Found not guilty.
Bert Shaw - Jealousy
Robert Percival Roberts - A ship's cook.
Walter Sickert - Painted several pictures relating to the crime.

Esther Bowen, 84, ran a boarding house in Argyle Street, King's Cross.

As a hoarder of money (she was extremely wealthy) she was at risk of robbery and this is exactly what happened on November 7th 1918. She was found the next morning with her hands tied and a handkerchief stuffed into her throat.

The witnesses testimonies were deemed to be unreliable and the murder remains unsolved to this day.

Sharif Zaiden was shot 3 times and killed at a private function at the Egg club in King's Cross.

The killing was over a dispute about DJ-ing at a pirate radio station in West London.

Samuels is currently serving a minimum of 27 years after his trial in Blackfriars Crown Court.

Daniel Ross was shot and killed at the Scala club in King's Cross on 24 September 2006.

He arrived at 1pm but was shot at around 3.45 am with a single bullet whilst standing next to the DJ booth in the Scala club.

900 people attended the 'Heartless Crew' event but few witnesses have come forward.

Police have launched an appeal via Crimewatch:
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16 year old Ben Kinsella was stabbed multiple times by 3 teenagers after a petty argument by others (not involving him) which then escalated into a drug-fuelled chase down the street.

The stabbing took place in North Road, near Islington/King's Cross. He was stabbed 11 times in the chest, shoulder and heart for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

He died in hospital a few hours later.

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Christopher Winship, 36, was stabbed to death, on November 28th, 2008, in a domestic dispute while picking up his step daughter from nursery on Bingfield Street.

He collapsed in Havelock Street at around 4pm that afternoon.

Eddie Reid, the murderer was given a life sentence in August 2009.

The sixteen year old ex-convent schoolgirl was strangled to death.

Her body was found in a disused, derelict yard, by a block of flats in Outram Place off York Way just north of King's Cross station on the 4th March.

Zakk Sackett, 19 was held in custody and charged with killing Jessie.

Jessie Wright was last seen alive on March 3rd.

'A police spokesman said investigations were continuing and appealed to members of the public to help them find Jessie's phone, a Black Samsung Tocco Lite.' source - Sky News

Samuel Fitzgerald, 20, was stabbed to death outside the Thornhill Arms pub, Caledonian Road.

During an altercation with another man he was fatally wounded. He'd been stabbed.

A man has been arrested and charged with murder, April 2010.

A 63 year old man dressed in women's clothes was pushed under a Piccadilly Line train at King's Cross Station on Monday, 25th October, 2010.

The victim and the suspect was talking excitedly just minutes before the suspect pushed the victim under the train causing his death. The suspect a 34 year old woman called Nina Kanagasingham, from Cricklewood has now been detained.

Reports from witnesses suggested that the victim and the suspect knew each other and were pushing and pulling one another as a joke prior to the incident.