Murder of Vera Page
Vera Isobel Minnie Page (13 April 1921 - 14 December 1931) was a British schoolgirl and the victim of an unsolved child murder case from the early 1930s. Page was reported missing after she failed to return to her home in Notting Hill, London, from a visit to a nearby relative on 14 December 1931; her body was found two days later in undergrowth in nearby Addison Road. She had been raped, then manually strangled to death in a murder described by one detective as "the most terrible in which I had to deal with during my career". Strong circumstantial evidence existed attesting to the guilt of a local labourer named Percy Orlando Rush, whose parents lived in the same house as Vera and who was casually acquainted with the Page family. However, an investigative procedural flaw is believed to have enabled Rush to dispose of crucial physical evidence prior to a formal police search of his home. As such, at the subsequent coroner's inquest into Vera's death, the coroner's jury determined that insufficient real evidence existed to formally charge Rush with her murder. No individual was ever brought to trial for Vera's murder. Officially, the case remains unsolved.
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Addison Road, Greater London Notting Hill (Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea)
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Addison Road
W14 8ED Greater London, Notting Hill (Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea)
England, United Kingdom
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