Inside brutal murder of 16-year-old girl and one of London's oldest cold cases in living memory: Jacqueline Johns was found naked close to Battersea Power Station...
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uk By Martin Robinson, Chief Reporter and Stewart Whittingham and Andy Young For Mailonline Published: 14:01 BST, 10 August 2024 | Updated: 14:01 BST, 10 August 2024 e-mail View comments Pretty as a picture in a bright yellow dress, 16-year-old Jacqueline Johns grinned cheekily and waved to the bride as she rushed from the reception to get her last train home. The shy insurance clerk had thanked Susan Baynes for the 'lovely time' she had at the wedding on the Essex Riviera and happily bustled from the door tottering on her platform shoes. Jacqueline's destination was home in Thornton Heath, South London , but she never made it and hours after she said a cheery farewell to the bride, her life was cruelly snuffed out.
The teenager's body had been stripped of clothing and dumped in a railway siding in the shadow of Battersea Power Station, across the Thames from where she was last seen at Victoria Station. Jackie was raped and strangled. The bright lemon-coloured dress she wore was missing, as was the sheepskin coat borrowed from her sister.
Only her yellow and blue shoes were found tossed away nearby..