Age: 22
Sex: male
Date: 27 Sep 1998
Place: Stratford Shopping Centre, East London
Mark Wade was stabbed in a fight near Stratford Shopping Centre on 27 September 1998.
A 19-year-old man was tried but found not guilty.
It was claimed that the man had stabbed Mark Wade and another man in the street following a petty row. It was heard that the stab injuries were almost identical but that the other man survived.
Within 48 hours of the murder the man tried flew out to Istanbul in Turkey. The tickets were bought by his sister who had been a travel agent.
When he was returned for trial he said that it wasn't him that stabbed Mark Wade and his friend but another person he was with, who he named.
It was said that after the man had stabbed Mark Wade he had then stabbed the other man and laughed and said, 'I actually did it, I stabbed him'.
At his police interview the man made no comment.