Phil Nickson
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Phil Nickson received a blow to the back of the head on the railway bridge in Newington Green Road,Stoke Newington, London at around 5 pm on Wednesday, 6th November 1985.
Nickson was 32 years old at the time of his death. Born in Manchester, he had trained as a teacher at Canley College,Coventry,now part of the University of Warwick and was working as a civil servant in the Lord Chancellor's Department. After taking the day off work he left his home in Petherton Road probably to visit the local shops. It was then that he was fatally injured. There were reports that people who saw him lying on the pavement thought he was drunk. Eventually a passing motorist took him to the Whittington Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
There was an exhaustive police investigation which involved using roadblocks to question motorists the Wednesday following Phil's death, questioning his many friends and acquaintances and a reconstruction on the BBC's Crimewatch programme. The murder was reported in the Hackney Gazette, Islington Gazette and other local media. No motive, murder weapon, eyewitnesses or forensic evidence were discovered and the case remains unsolved.
