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The house at 10 Rillington Place: the quiet neighbour who sent an innocent man to the gallows

2026-11-10 · · The Gravest Crimes, Solved · 12 min read

London in the 1940s was a city of soot, ration books and bomb damage.

In Notting Hill, about 5 km west of the centre, there was a short dead-end street called Rillington Place. The houses were small, old and crowded, and the rooms were cheap.

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