#65 - The Unfortunate Mr Johnson (Soho, London, W1)

#65 - The Unfortunate Mr Johnson (Soho, London, W1)

Gordon Johnson; a tragic man of many misfortunes, who was side-lined by life and shafted by fate, and yet crueller still, with no reason and being so unexpected, on Tuesday 5th September 1945, in Mac’s Dance Hall in Soho, the first time he ever met, saw or even knew about his killer was in the seconds before his death.

  • Date: Tuesday 5th September 1945
  • Location: 41 Great Windmill Street, Soho, London, W1
  • Victims: 1 (Gordon Johnson)
  • Culprit: Private Thomas Edward Croft


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#134 - Penny Bell and the Thirty-Year Silence (Greenford, London, England)

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