[1][2][3] On 11 September 1907, Emily Elizabeth Dimmock (known as Phyllis), a part-time sex worker in a relationship with Bertram Shaw, a railwayman, was murdered in her home at Agar Grove (then 29 St Paul's Road), Camden, having gone there from The Eagle public house, Royal College Street.
The judge Mr Justice Grantham departed from the pro-conviction stance he was expected to take mid-summing up, and made it clear he thought the jury should acquit.
[2][3] The artist Walter Sickert adopted the phrase The Camden Town Murder for a series of etchings, paintings and drawings in 1908–09, in each of which the subjects are a clothed man and a nude woman.
[6][7] A television series, Killer in Close-Up, dramatised by George F. Kerr, featured the case in the episode "The Robert Wood Trial".
More than thirty years later, the court case featured in an episode of the BBC series Shadow of the Noose in 1989, with Jonathan Hyde as Marshall Hall, and Peter Capaldi as Wood.