GRIEF-STRICKEN relatives of a woman murdered by Anthony Hardy – dubbed the ‘Camden Ripper’ – have told of new heartache in their campaign for a public inquiry into the murderer’s killing spree.
Jackie Valad, whose daughter Liz was one of Hardy’s three known victims, has failed in a High Court bid to force an open review of the grisly murders.
Mr Justice Bennett ruled at the Royal Courts of Justice on Friday that the government had met its obligations by holding an independent review into the mental healthcare received by Hardy.
As the New Journal exclusively revealed in October, the claim was also made in the name of Liz Valad’s 13-year-old daughter, Soraya.

THE future of a new £30-million wing at Archway’s Whittington Hospital is still in the balance – after health bosses revealed a new company could take over the project from troubled construction firm Jarvis.
Jarvis, suffering with cash-flow problems, is negotiating with City financiers to take on the project.

THE saga of a former neighbourhood advice centre, and the police’s plan to turn it into a new base for Camden Town officers, took a new twist this week when an ex-Mayor protested against the scheme.
Gloria Lazenby has called on planners to throw out the scheme to renovate 12 Greenland Road – the former headquarters of the Camden Town Neighbourhood Advice Centre (CTNAC).

A DERELICT shoe factory hidden away behind a row of million pound homes in Primrose Hill is due to be transformed into war-ravaged Leningrad after being discovered by a theatre company director.
The former Hobbs building in Gloucester Crescent had been empty for three years. Then director Emma Serlin, 24, searching for a venue, was tipped off about the Victorian factory.

POETS will have to become businessmen after Camden Council told a Kentish Town community hall to find its own funding – a move that threatens the future of volunteering across the borough.