Age: 26
Sex: female
Date: 27 Jan 1948
Place: Syon Lane, Brentford, Middlesex
Sylvia Styles was strangled after she had been to the cinema at about 11pm on Tuesday 27 January 1948. She was found dead the following morning.
Her body was found on a dimly-lit footpath that ran between the Thames and Brentford High Street near Syon House in Isleworth. Her body was identified by her brother who lived in Harthorn Hatch in Brentford.
see National Archives - MEPO 3/2996
see Birmingham Daily Gazette - Wednesday 17 March 1948
see Shields Daily News - Wednesday 28 January 1948
see Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 16 March 1948
see Hull Daily Mail - Tuesday 16 March 1948
see Hull Daily Mail - Friday 30 January 1948
see Gloucester Citizen - Thursday 29 January 1948
see Unsolved 1948
