Age: 24
Sex: male
Date: 9 May 1936
Place: 66 Old Compton Street, Soho, London
Constance May Smith was found dead on her bed strangled with an electric light flex. Her head had also been beaten in with a flat iron.
The police were called out to her room on the second floor at 66 Old Crompton Street in Soho at 9.10am on 9 May 1936 and found her lying on her back on a bed dead. She had a piece of insulated electric wire loosely round her neck and her head had been severely battered. She had been strangled with the piece of electric wire and battered with a bloodstained flat iron that was found lying on the bed.