Welcome to Season 3, Episode 8 of They Walk Among Us, a podcast dedicated to UK True Crime.

Listener caution is advised, as this episode contains adult themes and descriptions

that some listeners may find distressing.

On January 2nd, 1998, 15-year-old Hannah Duterville left her home in Queens Park, London,

to meet a friend. She never came home.

The roots of the Notting Hill Carnival in London date back to the late 1950s, when both

Brixton and Notting Hill had seen a considerable influx of people from different countries.

The government encouraged emigration to Britain as after the Second World

War the countries within it faced a labour shortage. Thousands of West Indian immigrants

join the working class alongside scores of Irish, Spanish and Greek workers. Living conditions

were cramped and often accommodation had little or no running water, no indoor toilets, no electricity.

This influx of new cultures wasn't always accepted. If you were black, you were often met with racism

and denied the same housing and employment opportunities as someone from the white working class.

Not only pubs, but some government-run agencies where you would find work and housing,

displayed signs which read, no Irish, no coloured, no dogs.

Tensions boiled over after a marked increase in attacks on black families by far right groups.

These included the White Defense League and Oswald Mosley's Union Movement.

These groups regularly distributed pamphlets that displayed slogans like,

Take Action Now, Protect Your Jobs, Stop Colored coloured immigration, and houses for white people,

not for coloured immigrants. This eventually led to the race riots during August and September

in 1958.

Around midnight on May 17th of the following year, Kelso Cochran, an Antiguan immigrant in his early 30s, was

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