#341 - London's Forgotten 'Gay Slayer' (W2, SW6, SW1 and SW10)

#341 - London's Forgotten 'Gay Slayer' (W2, SW6, SW1 and SW10)

From the 31st of January 1980 to the 1st of August 1983, on neighbouring streets across the London postcodes of W2, SW6, with two in SW1 and two in SW10, six gay men were murdered - Henry Carr, Dr Richard Mercy, Carlos Mery-Squella, Anthony Bird, Harry Williams and Peter Arne. They were linked by detectives as they had all been sadistically stabbed, battered, and sometimes posed and set alight. But who was the slayer of gay men in London’s West End?


  • Location #1: Henry Carr, top floor flat,52 Cathcart Road, Kensington, SW10
  • Location #2: Dr Richard Mercy, Flat 5, 34 Eaton Place, Belgravia, SW1
  • Location #3: Carlos Mery-Sequella, Flat 2, 22 Gunter Grove, West Brompton, Kensington, SW10
  • Location #4: Anthony Jackson Bird, Bentley Court, 72-74 Kensington Gardens Square, Bayswater, W2
  • Location #5: Harry Williams, flat unknown, Bagley’s Lane in Fulham, SW6
  • Location #6: Peter Arne, ground floor flat, 54 Hans Place in Kensington, SW1
  • Culprit: ?


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