Twenty-one-year-old delivery driver and father of one Greg Watson was attending the Notting Hill Carnival in North Kensington, London, England on August 28th, 2000. At around ten p.m., he began heading back toward his home in Northolt, but was soon approached by a group of people, one of whom stabbed him in the side with a long-bladed knife.
The entire murder was captured on CCTV, but only the back of the killer’s head was visible. All that could be determined was that the man was muscular and wearing a hoodie.
Though witnesses were somewhat reluctant to aid the police, it eventually came to light that the killer had possibly been harassing a girl at the carnival for her phone number, and Greg Watson had stepped in to tell him off.
Not long after the crime, authorities tracked down a suspect hiding inside the wardrobe of his house. This man was subsequently put on trial, but complications arose when some of the witnesses refused to testify, claiming the attack had been too fast for them to see anything. It was believed that there may have been some witness intimidation, but this was never proved.
The suspect was acquitted of the murder of Greg Watson, after which the case went cold, and remains unsolved as of October 2024. Another man named Abdul Bhatti was murdered during the same carnival, though the two crimes are not thought to be connected. That slaying is likewise unsolved.
Crime Immemorial 