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At approximately 5 p.m. on Tuesday, March 24, 1953,

Barisford Brown rushed out of the ground floor flat at 10 Rillington Place in Notting Hill's

Ladbrook Grove, neighborhood to a payphone outside. He frantically called the police and officers

were immediately dispatched to the address. Within minutes, they arrived at the three-story

residential building at the end of the cul-de-sac and raised inside. Police Constable Leslie

Seisman was one of the first to enter the ground floor flat, finding that derelict residents

mostly empty. He made his way into the kitchen, a narrow, ramshackle space clotted with junk.

A section of wallpaper had been torn from a rear wall next to a sink to reveal a small

cupboard like our cove hidden behind. Constable Seisman peered into the dark and find space,

and recoiled in horror. The officers stripped away all of the remaining

wallpaper, exposing a small timber-framed doorway that led into a cramped,

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