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Harold Hill

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About Harold Hill


Harold Hill is a suburban area in Romford in East London, England, 16. 6 miles northeast of Charing Cross, which is identified as a district centre in the London Plan. The name refers to Harold Godwinson who held the manor of Havering-atte-Bower. It is peripheral to London, forming an eastern edge of the urban sprawl.

Ex-Met Police officer guilty of raping girl and woman

Ex-Met Police officer guilty of raping girl and woman
Jun 20,2023 6:00 am

... The jury heard Provan raped the girl in Central Park, Harold Hill, Romford, in a " brazen and calculated" attack after meeting her through a friend in 2010 and claiming to be 22...

London homicides highest for year

London homicides highest for year
Feb 16,2020 9:05 am

... The 17-year-old was knifed in the back as she sat with friends in Harold Hill, on 1 March...

London knife crime: Number of teenagers stabbed to death hits 11-year high

London knife crime: Number of teenagers stabbed to death hits 11-year high
Feb 16,2020 8:29 am

... Earlier this week two teenagers were jailed for life after being found guilty of murdering 17-year-old Jodie when she was in attacked in a park in Harold Hill, east London...

Jodie Chesney: Two teens jailed for murder

Jodie Chesney: Two teens jailed for murder
Feb 16,2020 8:21 am

... Jodie Chesney was stabbed in the back as she sat with friends in Harold Hill on 1 March...

Jodie Chesney: to die Stabbed in the back and on the left side

Jodie Chesney: to die Stabbed in the back and on the left side
Feb 16,2020 7:57 am

... It was all planned - she would meet the group at Amy s Park in Harold Hill, Romford...

Jodie Chesney murder trial: Drug dealer Svenson Ong-a-Kwie found guilty

Jodie Chesney murder trial: Drug dealer Svenson Ong-a-Kwie found guilty
Feb 16,2020 7:56 am

... Jodie was stabbed in the back in a case of mistaken identity as she socialised with friends in Harold Hill on 1 March...

Jodie Chesney: the knife pass almost teenage body'

Jodie Chesney: the knife pass almost teenage body'
Feb 16,2020 6:36 am

... The 17-year-old was with friends socialising in the Harold Hill area of Romford, east London, when she was stabbed in the back, the on 1...

Jodie Chesney death: Boyfriend of stabbed girl 'managed to catch her'

Jodie Chesney death: Boyfriend of stabbed girl 'managed to catch her'
Feb 16,2020 6:25 am

... Jodie Chesney was on a park bench with friends when she was knifed in the back in Harold Hill, east London...

Jodie Chesney murder trial: Drug dealer Svenson Ong-a-Kwie found guilty

Feb 16,2020 6:18 am

Two teenagers have been found guilty of murdering 17-year-old Jodie Chesney in a park in East London .

Jodie was stabbed in the back in a case of Mistaken Identity as she socialised with friends in Harold Hill on 1 March.

Drug dealer Svenson Ong-a-Kwie, 19, and a 17-year-old boy were both convicted of murder following an eight-week trial at the Old Bailey.

Manuel Petrovic, 20, of Romford, and a 16-year-old boy were both cleared of murder and manslaughter.

The Jury spent less than six hours deliberating their verdicts on all four defendants.

Judge Wendy Joseph QC said Ong-a-Kwie and the 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, would be sentenced on 18 November .

Svenson Ong-a-Kwie was one of Two People to be found guilty of Jodie's murder

Following The Guilty verdicts, Det Ch Insp Dave Whellams, of Scotland Yard , said the murder of "girl Next Door " Jodie had "shocked a nation".

He added: "It could have been anybody's daughter. She was a Very Nice girl, she had a Small Circle of friends, she did well at school, worked in the community.

"They have gone there purposefully to stab somebody and they have not cared who they stabbed. They stabbed a 17-year-old girl in the back for no Reason . "

The 17-year-old was stabbed once in the back while she was socialising with friends in Amy's Park

Throughout The Trial it was never disputed that Ong-a-Kwie and the teenager were the Two People who went into Amy's Park on The Night Jodie was stabbed.

The pair blamed each other for the stabbing, while Ong-a-Kwie admitted burning his clothes with a cigarette lighter.

Jurors heard Jodie had her back to her attackers and The Knife almost passed right through her body.

After being stabbed the teenager screamed and fell into the arms of her boyfriend Eddie Coyle, the court was told.

Frantic efforts were made to save her but she was pronounced dead in a petrol station in Gants Hill about an hour later.

Jodie's boyfriend Eddie Coyle described the motion the attacker used to stab her

Following The Verdict , Peter Chesney said his daughter's murder had "destroyed My Life ".

"I have no idea how I Am going to continue with My Life or even come to terms with the loss," he said.

Jodie's sister Lucy wrote in a victim impact statement that she had been "dreading My Life rather than Looking Forward to it" following the 17-year-old's death.

"Jodie was not only My Sister she was my Best Friend . Losing her is like losing half of myself. "

She added that she was now "anxious about everything" as "if someone as good and pure as Jodie could be murdered, it could happen to anyone and I spend everywhere I go looking over my shoulder because of it".

Witnesses described Amy's Park as being "very dark" at the time of The Attack

Prosecutor Crispin Aylett QC told The Jury Jodie was "a victim of a brutal act of unprovoked violence".

He described The Girl 's death as "another example" of the "terrible consequences of the carrying and using of knives".

"It seems Every Day now in our city another Young Life is lost to a knife," he said.

During his evidence, Mr Petrovic admitted driving The Group to Harold Hill but denied any knowledge of what happened in Amy's Park.

He told jurors he was "glad he was arrested because he had nothing to Hide ".



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Source of news: bbc.com

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