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Nicola Edgington made repeated pleas to be sectioned. Picture: Metropolitan Police Service

Metropolitan Police: checks into Nicola Edgington would not have prevented murder of Sally Hodkin in Bexleyheath

The Met Police has claimed doing background checks on Nicola Edgington would not have prevented the murder of Sally Hodkin in Bexleyheath.

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Nicola Edgington made repeated pleas to be sectioned. Picture: Metropolitan Police Service

UPDATE: Bexleyheath knife murderer Nicola Edgington sentenced to life imprisonment

Bexleyheath knife murderer Nicola Edgington has been sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 37 years.

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Nicola Edgington made repeated pleas to be sectioned. Picture: Metropolitan Police Service

Metropolitan police criticised for failing to carry out basic checks on Nicola Edgington

The Metropolitan Police have been criticised for not carrying out basic checks on Nicola Edgington hours before she murdered Sally Hodkin in Bexleyheath.

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Dean and Janet Robey with items which remind them of Gemma. Pic by Keith Larby

Erith mum seeks closure as 10-year anniversary of daughter’s death approaches

Gemma Rolfe was just nine when she penned a poem which belied her young years about the value of human life and of sorrow and pain.

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Bexleyheath murder suspect begged police to section her

A policeman failed to run a check on a convicted killer who begged him to help her get sectioned just hours before she stabbed a grandmother to death, a court heard today.

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Woman due in court over Bexleyheath fatal knife attack

A Greenwich woman will appear at the Old Bailey today accused of stabbing a grandmother to death in a busy shopping street.

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Penguin Ricky the Rockhopper being weighed at London Zoo. The birds put on weight in preparation for the summer months. Picture: ZSL

London Zoo residents expect summer even if no one else does

Whisper it, but summer could be on its way - at least according to penguins at London Zoo.

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