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Mancini charged with the second Brighton Trunk murder

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Seven years after the first dismembered body of a woman was found in a trunk at a railway station, another body was found in a similar manner. Except that this time, the dead woman had been pregnant at the time of her killing.

With no leads, the police were pressured into a massive door to door search of Brighton. A month later they found another dismembered, decomposing body in a trunk.

The body was that of prostitute Violet Kaye, lover of convicted criminal Tony Mancini...