Forty-year-old postal worker Mick Love, described as a “gentle giant” by his family, lived in Swindon, England with his wife Karen and their two children, aged four and eight.
On the night of September 26th, 2004, Mick had gone out with friends to Old Town in Swindon. At three-twelve a.m. on the morning of September 27th, he was seen on CCTV camera leaving an Indian restaurant called the Bombay Brasserie with one friend.
He and the other man parted ways near the intersection of Victoria Road and Durham Street. Only minutes later, Mick was attacked.
His body was found at approximately five-thirty a.m., lying on the pavement off Cannon Street. He had been robbed and stabbed three times, in the stomach, abdomen, and back. The blade of the knife had snapped off in one of the wounds, but the handle of the weapon was never found.
Evidence showed that his sim card was still in his phone at three-thirty-three a.m., but by three-forty-eight, a new sim card was in the phone. This indicated that the killer had struck in that fifteen-minute window, stealing Mick’s phone as well as the small amount of cash he carried.
In 2005, a thirty-seven-year-old man named Colin Lewin was arrested and tried for the murder but was acquitted by a jury.
Since then, the case has gone cold, but police urge anyone with information to come forward and help solve the tragic crime.
Crime Immemorial 