Rochester Row

Rochester Row is a street in the City of Westminster in London that runs between Greycoat Place in the north and Vauxhall Bridge Road in the south.

On 4 May 1927,[1] the Charing Cross Trunk Murder took place in a third floor office at 86 Rochester Row.

[2] On 6 May, John Robinson, a 35-year-old estate agent, took a cab to Charing Cross railway station, where he deposited a large black trunk in the left-luggage office.

[2] On 10 May after a "dreadful smell" was noted, the police opened the trunk to find the dismembered body of a woman.

[2] Robinson eventually confessed to the murder of prostitute Minnie Bonati, for which he was hanged on 12 August.