New Scotland Yard Files

In a North London suburb Nisha Patel Nasri was fatally stabbed in her home. She ran out to her driveway and shocked neighbors called 999, but it was too late to save Nisha. She was a popular local hairdresser and a special constable who, the night before the attack, had just celebrated her 3rd wedding anniversary. Was she targeted because she was a policewoman? Was this a robbery that went wrong?

When barman David Morley was beaten on London's South Bank detectives from New Scotland Yard thought they were dealing with a homophobic attack. David had survived the bombing of the Admiral Nelson pub, and was a wellknown and much-loved figure in London's gay community, and attacks on gay people had just been recognized as hate crimes by the justice system so were very much in the headlines.

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. With over 600 officers and police divers involved, the search for Alice Gross became the biggest use of police manpower since the 7/7 bombing.

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. Police from New Scotland Yard immediately throw a cordon around the area and carry out an extensive search, and very quickly discover more limbs wrapped in the same way.

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, who had been part of a successful pop band in the 1980s, 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 bed with no sign of violence or struggle, it was only an eagle-eyed home help who noticed the TV was missing.The Stockwell Strangler had begun a 4-month spree which would leave 7 elderly men and women dead and struck fear into pensioners across south London. New Scotland Yard were desperate to get this serial killer off the streets.