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.
see Court News UK
see Court News UK
see Court News UK
see Independent
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