Murder on the Common

No one could have imagined that when beautiful young Rachel Nickell went for a walk on Wimbledon Common with her little son, it would have resulted in a wicked, sickening crime that appalled a nation; or that the police investigation that followed would cost over a million pounds. This is the inside story of that operation told by the police detective who headed it up, revealing information that has hitherto been withheld, that will astonish the reader and make you wonder if justice was really done.

Keith Pedder joined the Metropolitan Police in 1975 and was first posted to Peckham, south London. He later moved to Tower Bridge, where he served for more than five years with the famous 'Sweeney' He was promoted to Detective Inspector in 1992.