New Scotland Yard Files

In a quiet north London, suburb 29-year-old Nisha Patel Nasri was fatally stabbed in her own home. She ran out onto her driveway and shocked neighbors called 999, but it was too late to save Nisha.

When barman David Morley was savagely beaten on London's South Bank detectives from New Scotland Yard thought they were dealing with a homophobic attack.

When New Scotland Yard detective Carl Mehta was assigned to investigate a missing sixteen-year-old girl, he freely admits he feared the worse. Alice went for a walk at 6 pm on an August evening and never returned.

When a homeless man is searching for food in bins outside flats in Camden North London he thought he had discovered discarded meat, what he'd actually found was dismembered body parts wrapped in black plastic bags.

When police discovered a man on fire in Edmonton, north London, they assumed he had set fire to himself, he died in hospital 16 days after the incident. Michael Menson had a history of mental illness but he told his family he'd been attacked and his family campaigned to get police to investigate.

The first victim of the Stockwell Strangler was found dead in her own bed with no sign of violence or a struggle, it was only an eagle-eyed home help who noticed the TV had been stolen.

Gagandip Singh suffered a major tragedy when his father was murdered on a business trip to India, so when his body is discovered in a burned-out car in Greenwich, detectives from New Scotland Yard wondered if the two deaths were connected.

When Cathy Marlow didn't turn up, the alarm was raised and her body was discovered at her office. She'd been bludgeoned to death and strangled with her own scarf.

Laila Rezk was discovered badly beaten in her own home in Kingston, by her grown-up children who arrived to have dinner with her. They tried to revive her but Laila died of her injuries.

Geeta Aulakh, a wife and mother of two boys, is fatally attacked with a machete as she makes her way to pick up her children from the child minders in Greenford, west London.