£20k reward for helping to catch man who brutally stabbed student at Soho club
October 16, 2024
£20k reward for helping to catch man who brutally stabbed student at Soho club
by Empty_Sherbet96
7 comments
I wonder if anyone has ever actually been able to claim one of those rewards lol
I remember that crime, absolutely appalling. I think it provided the impetus for the Soho clip joints to get shut down, finally.
I remember this. What younger members of this sub may not know, is that back in the early 00s a number of the ‘strip clubs’ in soho effectively ran scams. They would hire girls to bring men in, mainly tourists, who would sit down order a drink and then be handed a very large bill for speaking with a girl for 2min (without seeing a show). Prices were never advertised and the premise would arrange one or two very large bouncers to collect the bill. It wasn’t unusual back then to hear about someone being beaten up if they argued or refused to pay.
If I remember correctly this was the sort of place the girl worked. The theory at the time was that he was a tourist who encountered the scam and took revenge on the girl who brought him in to the club. To be clear she did not deserve what happened to her and it is a shame the killer has never been found. However, the strip joint owners and staff were also not prosecuted for running a scam or puting people in very vulnerable positions. The one good thing is that it brought these places more to light and the police did shut down some of the really scummy places.
I was just reading about clip joints the other day (and posted on casualuk). Her murder was quite prominently mentioned in their history and perhaps was the catalyst to get them squeezed to the point they disappeared.
Met police have a good murder solving rate (especially compared to inner city USA where they’re inundated with gangland killings) so it’s sad this hasn’t been solved. Hopefully the guy has been watching his back, waiting for that knock for 20 years, and will finally see justice on the back of this appeal
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The scum that operate those horrible scams kind of…
7 comments
I wonder if anyone has ever actually been able to claim one of those rewards lol
I remember that crime, absolutely appalling. I think it provided the impetus for the Soho clip joints to get shut down, finally.
I remember this. What younger members of this sub may not know, is that back in the early 00s a number of the ‘strip clubs’ in soho effectively ran scams. They would hire girls to bring men in, mainly tourists, who would sit down order a drink and then be handed a very large bill for speaking with a girl for 2min (without seeing a show). Prices were never advertised and the premise would arrange one or two very large bouncers to collect the bill. It wasn’t unusual back then to hear about someone being beaten up if they argued or refused to pay.
If I remember correctly this was the sort of place the girl worked. The theory at the time was that he was a tourist who encountered the scam and took revenge on the girl who brought him in to the club. To be clear she did not deserve what happened to her and it is a shame the killer has never been found. However, the strip joint owners and staff were also not prosecuted for running a scam or puting people in very vulnerable positions. The one good thing is that it brought these places more to light and the police did shut down some of the really scummy places.
I was just reading about clip joints the other day (and posted on casualuk). Her murder was quite prominently mentioned in their history and perhaps was the catalyst to get them squeezed to the point they disappeared.
Met police have a good murder solving rate (especially compared to inner city USA where they’re inundated with gangland killings) so it’s sad this hasn’t been solved. Hopefully the guy has been watching his back, waiting for that knock for 20 years, and will finally see justice on the back of this appeal
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The scum that operate those horrible scams kind of…
These rewards never get paid. Never ever.