crime archive
We look back at the most shocking crime stories this week in history
2018: Drinks with a killer
A vulnerable woman was stabbed to death by someone she’d socialised with hours before.
On the evening of 5 February 2018, Lucy Casey, 44, returned to mother-ofone Hannah Leonard’s flat after drinks at a pub in Kilburn, north London. There, Casey killed her victim, who suffered from Huntington’s disease, with knives and scissors.
In November, Casey was convicted of murder and sentenced to a minimum of 22 years.
1910: On the run
On the evening of 31 January 1910, Belle Elmore vanished from her London home. Her husband Dr Hawley Crippen said she’d fallen ill and died, but friends contacted police... Next day, Crippen fled to Brussels with his lover Ethel. While on the run, officers found Belle’s headless body under the floorboards. Later, Crippen was hanged at Pentonville Prison.
2008: model murder trial begins
Chef Mark Dixie, 37, stood accused at the Old Bailey of murdering part-time model Sally Anne Bowman.
Sally was stabbed and left almost naked in a pool of blood just feet from her front door in September 2005, two weeks after celebrating her 18th birthday.
Dixie denied murder, but on 22 February 2008 was found guilty and sentenced to at least 34 years.