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Wembley point woman, new info released (article). Does anyone know or rember her? Her story makes me extremely sad.
https://metro.co.uk/2024/10/29/major-update-wembley-point-w… https://news.sky.com/story/amp/wembley-point-woman-new-information-released-20-years-after-mystery-woman-found-dead-at-tower-block-13243930
https://metro.co.uk/2024/10/29/major-update-wembley-point-woman-case-20-years-fell-death-21871352/amp/
Seems that every time something new is known, more and more questions arise. Looks like she had a boyfriend. So she was not a total 'ghost'.
How actually someone "connected" may have remained unnamed for 20 years?
Also her oil painting reminds me about a Yoruba culture cerimony celebrated to honour the ancestors. The Egungun ceremony, the faceless figure in the center reminds me a lot about the costumes of Egungun masquerade
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egungun
I lived in Harrow around that time and Wembley Point was just the tall grey building you saw from the train into Marylebone, nothing more. The detail that gets me is the shopping bag with the receipt, they could trace where she'd been that day but not her name. If she was Yoruba or Nigerian, someone in the community would've recognised the painting, those Egungun masks are pretty specific and it's odd nobody came forward. Twenty years is a long time for a whole network of people to stay silent.
the egungun link is interesting but the painting could also just be west african church art, loads of those faceless figures in pentecostal stuff around peckham & hackney back then. what gets me is nobody checked the nigerian embassies or the churches, feels like they treated her as a jane doe when she clearly had a whole life somewhere
tbh i walked past Wembley Point a bunch back then and it was just a normal office block to me, no idea anything happened. the boyfriend angle is the bit that gets me tho, someone knew her and still stayed quiet for 20 years which is mad.
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What are some innovative ways to anonymously compare rental prices in a city?
SpareRoom's "rooms wanted" ads are underrated for this. people post what they're currently paying alongside what they want next, so you can scrape a rough sense of going rates by postcode without anyone knowing you looked. it skews young and flatshare heavy tho, so not much use if you're after 2-beds in zone 2.
Another one is just the depozit or tenancy deposit scheme data. not public-facing, but your council's housing officer can tell you median rents from deposit registrations if you email them under FOI. takes weeks, but its proper anon and nobody clocks u.
Rightmove and Zoopla only show asking rents, which are often 10 to 15 percent above what a place actually goes for, so they're a poor benchmark. The trick I've used is the ONS Price Index of Private Rents, which breaks things down to borough level and is genuinely anonymous since it's aggregate data, no listing or account needed. For something more granular, the London Renters Union runs a rent reporting tool where you submit what you're paying with your postcode and it maps it against others nearby, though the coverage is patchy outside the inner boroughs.
the openrent "rent check" thing is decent for zones 3-4 where the unions tool barely reaches. also worth checking the london.gov.uk planning portal for new build applications, they list "affordable" and market rent figures per unit in the viability assessments, which is basically the developer telling the council what they expect to charge. bit of a faff to dig through but its public, anonymous & nobody knows ur looking