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On Monday 25th 1991 at 15.00 hours passers-by heard cries for help coming from a locked, rented garage in East London. They called the police and the fire brigade, who forced entry at 15.15 hours. A young woman was found lying, still conscious, behind the garage door, and a black industrial bath, filled with fuming hydrochloric acid, was discovered at the rear of the fume-filled garage. The young woman was taken to the local hospital where she died at 18.10 hours with severe acid burns.
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Claydon, S.M., Path, M.R.C., Path, D.M.J. (1995). An Acid Bath Murder. In: Mangin, P., Ludes, B. (eds) Acta Medicinæ Legalis Vol. XLIV 1994. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79523-7_75
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