Almost thirty years ago, a woman was murdered near the fictional address of super detective Sherlock Holmes in London. Now a court in the British capital has sentenced the perpetrator to life imprisonment. The 51-year-old cannot be released from prison until after 19 years at the earliest, the Old Bailey criminal court ruled on Friday.
The Chiltern Street crime scene is not far from Holmes’ alleged residence at 221b Baker Street – the address was created by Sherlock author Arthur Conan Doyle for his hero, the house number does not exist on the known street.
The then 21-year-old perpetrator had always denied killing the woman in August 1994 with more than 140 stab wounds in her apartment near Baker Street. His fingerprints were found on a plastic bag at the crime scene. However, because he was helping out at his father’s kiosk, which is where the bag came from, this was not considered evidence. The kiosk is located opposite the private Sherlock Holmes Museum.
The perpetrator was only convicted and charged last year after his DNA was found on a ring belonging to the victim and he was linked to a bloody footprint on a baseboard. A jury subsequently found him guilty.
Source: Krone
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