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Murder of Vera Page

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Vera I M Page Leeds Mercury 17 December 1931
Vera I M Page Leeds Mercury 17 December 1931

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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Murder of Vera Page
Addison Road, Greater London Notting Hill (Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea)

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Addison Avenue
Addison Avenue

Addison Avenue is a street in the Notting Hill area of London. Located in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, it runs northwards from Holland Park Avenue to St James's Gardens and St James' Church, crossing Queensdale Road about halfway along. Norland Square is located to its east while Royal Crescent is a little way to the west. A broad, tree-lined avenue, it is largely residential with some commercial properties at the southern end. The smaller Addison Place mews street runs off the western side of the road, looping northwards until it meets Queensdale Road. Addison Avenue is in the wealthy London area of Holland Park.The street, like nearby Addison Road to the south, is named after the early 18th-century writer and politician Joseph Addison who lived at nearby Holland House. The Holland Estate was gradually redeveloped for housing although Addison Avenue was actually built on the adjacent Norland Estate. It was developed during the 1840s by the architect and property developer Robert Cantwell. It was designed with a vista towards St James' Church at the northern end of the street, which was built at the same time.A number of buildings in the street are now Grade II listed, including all those north of Queensdale Road. The houses in the northern part of the street are attributed to F.W. Stent. The street is part of the Norland Conservation Area, designated in 1969. Among the notable former residents was Hugh Carleton Greene (1910–1987), Director-General of the BBC during the 1960s, who is now commemorated by a blue plaque.