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Police investigating the murder of Khayrun Nessa in Tower Hamlets on 12 August 2008, are appealing for help in tracing a light blue coloured rucksack.

Officers from the Homicide and Serious Crime Command (HSCC East) believe that it could be important to their investigation and might hold crucial evidence.

Khayrun Nessa, 70, was stabbed at her home address in Byng Street, Limehouse, E14, and pronounced dead at the scene. A post mortem examination at Poplar mortuary on 13 August 2024 gave cause of death as stab wounds.

A man carrying a light blue rucksack was seen getting on the DLR at Canary Wharf Station near Byng Street immediately after the murder and exiting at All Saints Station. He then disappeared into the Robin Hood Gardens housing estate, E14.

CCTV footage

CCTV image of man with rucksack

The man is described as Asian, wearing a dark blue hooded top with two white stripes running down the shoulders onto the arms and a motif of a lion on the left chest area, white or beige trousers and brown shoes.

Anyone who has seen/found a discarded rucksack of similar description or who saw the man carrying it/disposing of it, is asked to contact the Incident Room on 020 8345 3715 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

Three men and a woman were arrested in connection with the inquiry. One of the men has since been charged.

photo credit: CCTV Met Police