At 4:05 a.m. a woman living on Cyprus Road heard a vehicle brake suddenly and, looking out of the window, saw Landa's taxi rocking violently as though a fight was taking place inside.
Her killer, who may have been in the car with her for the journey, had driven off in the vehicle after her murder and abandoned it in Camden Town, with money and the keys to her two properties left untouched inside.
However, the case was re-opened many years later and brought to the Appeal Court in 2003, when the jury overturned the conviction and McPhee was released.
[144][143] When the case was being reinvestigated in the 2000s, a man seen locking the door of the shop at around 11:15 a.m. on the day of the murder (14 June 1985) was identified as the chief suspect.
[150] Footprint evidence showed that Cook's killer wore a shoe with the word "Flash" imprinted on the sole, and the case was dubbed the "Cinderella Murder".
[211] Police enquiries had originally focused on a key sighting of an agitated man in his early 20s who had hailed a taxi 400 yards from the murder site shortly after the killing.
Police investigating the fraud conducted a search of the grounds of Heath House for 30 gold bars said to be there and to have a total value of around £12 million, but none were found.