Brixton Hill

Yeah,

that's the blood set party on Brixton Hill.

How old were we, like 13?

Yeah, we was young, young.

And then before you know it, that's when you couldn't get on certain buses because there's too much people.

So then you all had to walk in this big mob.

And we went to Brixton Hill.

Who did we think we were? We actually went to a dance and we all wore all red.

By 2021, she'd been living in London for around 12 years.

She was just 33 years old and lived in the Brixton Hill area of the city.

Sarah remained close to her family back up in York, and she had a loving relationship with her boyfriend Josh.

The pair were in regular contact, as you'd expect from a close couple, and they had plans to see each other in the days ahead.

Clapham Common itself is a large open green space in South London, surrounded by residential streets and busy roads.

It's a popular place for walking, running and meeting friends, and the surrounding neighbourhoods are well connected to other parts of the capital.

Sarah knew the area well, and the journey back to Brixton Hill was one she could reasonably expect to complete on foot.

She spent several hours at her friend's house before deciding to head back to her own place, and at around 9pm the pair said their goodbyes and Sarah began walking home.

As I got older, you realize that money is not everything.

So I... always felt that I've you know put as much as I possibly can back into the society that has been so kind to me that's been so you know this country that's been so rewarding for me it's been a home for me and it will remain a home for me and my kids and my grandkids and you know I'm going to jump back to the beginning again I want to say this Again, going back to 1982, when I was at school and I couldn't speak a word of English, one of my teachers would take me from the school, from Streatham Hill to Brixton Hill, to English as a second language for the kids, extra lessons, in her own car.

It may seem like a small gesture, but it was massive.

It was massive.

Uh, and, and so you're keen, you, you, you want it.

And we're driving down Brixton Hill just on, on patrol, uh, no calls outstanding.

Uh, and a call comes out from, uh, the Territorial Support Group, the TSG, who drive in the big riot vans, um, to say that they've got a, a car in front of them heading down Acre Lane towards Brixton Town Center.

It's just done a red light, and it's failing to stop.

So when Sarah visited a friend's house for dinner, she was doing nothing wrong.

A meal and a few glasses of wine later, she said her goodbyes and began the two and a half mile walk back to her own home in Brixton Hill.

We know that she left that house at about 9:00.

We know that she also phones Josh on the way home, and there is CCTV footage of this.

I'm, and so I-

I-Researched, I saw, you know, that that road, 'cause it was Brixton Hill.

It was, it's a big road.

It goes right down past the, sweeps down past the, the tube station.

I was going to Vegas the next day, so I'd just been down to change up some money.

We're stood at the bus stop to go up Brixton Hill.

This is daytime, like Wednesday, and there's this guy waiting for the bus, crackhead, and this other guy comes up and just goes, bang, punches him, drops him.

He's going, "Where's my fucking money? Where's my fucking money?" He's just kicking him.