Rachel Applethwaite

Rachel Applethwaite was found mutilated in a lock up garage in Sumner Place, Chelsea on 26 January 1987.

She was a prostitute and had lived in a DHSS hotel in Earls Court with her 20-year-old boyfriend. They had been together for six months and would argue frequently, usually about money. She had moved to London four years earlier and had worked as a prostitute ever since.