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Michael Galvin

Age: 23

Sex: male

Date: 30 Aug 1987

Place: Westbourne Park Road, Notting Hill, London

Michael Galvin was stabbed in the chest at the Notting Hill Carnival on 30 August 1987.

He had been selling cans of Coca-Cola with his brother from a stall near his house when a gang of youths, who were said to have been clearly up to no good swept through the crowds at about 4pm. It was said that some of them had been stealing from other people and that when they had reached Michael Galvin's stall that one of them snatched a can of Coca-Cola from it and walked off without paying.


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see find.galegroup.com

see Court News UK

see Court News UK

see Court News UK

see Court News UK - Quash

see Independent

see True Crime Library

see a Staff reporter. "Young father dies in carnival attack." Times [London, England] 31 Aug. 1987: 1. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 3 Mar. 2013.

see Liverpool Echo - Saturday 31 March 1990

see "Death charge." Times [London, England] 17 Oct. 1987: 6. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 25 Aug. 2012.

see Kensington Post - Thursday 22 February 1990

see Newmarket Journal - Thursday 01 October 1987

see New Milton Advertiser - Saturday 26 September 1987

see Dundee Courier - Wednesday 02 September 1987

see Aberdeen Press and Journal - Wednesday 02 September 1987

see Aberdeen Press and Journal - Monday 31 August 1987

see Daily Mirror - Thursday 19 October 1989

see Daily Mirror - Wednesday 21 March 1990

see Unsolved 1987