Age: 33
Sex: male
Date: 8 Nov 2003
Place: London
The death of Paul Kara was flagged as undetected by the Metropolitan Police in a Freedom Of Information request but no further information is known.
He had been a white European male.
FOI request made on 8 August 2025. Refused 29 August 2025. Complained 30 August 2025. [With regards to any information that was given out at the time of the murder. C&E have advised that they have nothing on their logs re Paul Kara – They would have done at the time but moved to a new logging system in 2021 and a lot of the logs on older murders that hadn’t progressed were deleted. However, RMB have located files in relation to Paul Kara. These consists of 3 Parts and 11 Boxes. The information given out to the public at the time of the crime could possibly be inside one of the boxes. You have also requested the method of murder and any other details that might be relevent. To answer this part of request would also require a full review of all the files. We are also unable to decide what you require of other details that may be relevant. The information requested is not held locally or centrally in an easy electronic searchable format to allow the MPS to locate, identify and retrieve information sought. As there is no easy way for us to determine which of these files may contain the information from their title names nor the descriptions, we would have to recall and review each file to determine whether they are indexed, and if not, review every document/page within to see if there were any information given out to the public at the time of the crime or other information about the murder. We therefore estimate that the cost of complying with this request would exceed the appropriate limit. The appropriate limit has been specified in regulations and for agencies outside central Government; this is set at £450.00. This represents the estimated cost of one person spending 18 hours [at a rate of £25 per hour] in determining whether the MPS holds the information, and locating, retrieving and extracting the information.] Even in 1930 they had murder returns and a central collection of cases in the system. I dont beleive for an instant that if you brought up the name Paul Kara from 2003 in their system that they would have no idea who that was and no way of finding it out.
