A man has been given three life sentences for killing a woman and her two daughters in east London in 1982.
Norma Richards, 27, and her daughters Samantha, nine, and Syretta, seven, were found murdered at their home in Dalston, 28 years ago in July.
Wilbert Dyce, 54, of Forest Gate, was convicted at the Old Bailey.
A cold case review began after a journalist requested details on footballer Laurie Cunningham’s brother Keith’s murdered family.
The killer was caught after the reporter who was writing a book on Laurie Cunningham, the first black football player to be in an England squad, asked for details about the killing. BBC News online article 17th December 2010, ‘Three life sentences for 1982 murder of Dalston family’
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She was what the Victorians called a baby farmer … Over the space of thirty years she took in more than fifty babies and she killed them all. Jeremy Paxman: The Victorians: Home Sweet Home, BBC 2009
The advertisement in the Miscellaneous column of the Bristol Times & Mirror newspaper was poignant.
‘Wanted’, it read, ‘respectable woman to take young child’.
It was a sadly common request in Victorian Britain, where life was particularly hard for unmarried mothers.
The ad had been placed by 25-year-old Evelina Marmon, who two months earlier, in January 1896, had given birth in a boarding house in Cheltenham to a little girl she named Doris.
Evelina was a God-fearing farmer’s daughter who had gone astray, left the farm for city life and resorted to work as a barmaid in the saloon of the Plough Hotel, an old coaching inn ...
Evelina handed over a cardboard box of clothes she had packed – nappies, chemises, petticoats, frocks, nightgowns and a powder box – and the £10, and received in return a signed receipt.
She accompanied Mrs Harding to Cheltenham station and then on to Gloucester, where she stood weeping amid the choking steam on the platform as the 5.20pm train took her little girl away. She returned to her lodgings a broken woman.
A few days later, she had a letter from Mrs Harding saying all was well. Evelina wrote back straight away. She never received a reply. Mail online article 28th September 2007
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A boyfriend’s tears but where is Joanne Nelson? A secret journey and the marks that pointed to murder. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s2e5: Paul Dyson
Hull, Humberside, February 14th 2005: Joanne Nelson aged 22. Reported missing from her home. ibid.
According to her boyfriend, he’s said goodbye to her the following morning. His name Paul Dyson. ibid.
He agreed to be interviewed on camera. ibid.
‘Behind close doors he was a violent bully who had a history of abuse against partners.’ ibid. reporter
Now I getting suspicious because the sadness is just being pulled off the face in the fraction of a second … We start to see a smile come on his face. ibid. Cliff
From the moment he contacted the police, Paul Dyson’s story started unravelling. ibid.