Wembley Point Woman

The Wembley Point Woman (c. 1964–1984 – 29 October 2004) is a placeholder name for an unidentified woman found dead in London, United Kingdom on 29 October 2004. The Wembley Point Woman was found in the River Brent at the foot of a high-rise building that was known at the time as Wembley Point. Her death was ruled a suicide. Despite repeated inquiries over two decades, the Wembley Point Woman remains unidentified.

Background The formerly named Wembley Point tower block, from where the Wembley Point Woman was found. On the morning of 29 October 2004, a woman's body was found at the base of the Wembley Point tower in London. She was found deceased in the River Brent, lying at the foot of the tower. Witnesses saw her commit suicide by jumping from the building's rooftop cafe, 21 stories above the ground. On the day of her death, the Wembley Point Woman was reportedly looking through The Guardian while smoking a cigarette, when she suddenly leapt on a table, opened a window, and jumped to her death without warning. No one who saw the incident occur could recall her identity or what she was doing there.

Description The woman was of Afro-Caribbean descent and would have stood between 5'1" (1.55 m) and 5'3" (1.60 m) when she was alive. She was estimated to be between twenty and forty years of age. She was found wearing a maroon zip-up jacket over two layered jumpers, one black and one claret coloured. She wore a black glove on her left hand, covering a silver ring on her smallest finger. On her right hand, she wore a metal ring in the shape of a cowrie shell. Missing from her person was any type of identifying documentation. She did not carry a wallet, bank cards, house keys, nor a phone.

The Wembley Point Woman was later buried in a common grave in Watford's Carpenders Park Cemetery.

In 2021 and 2023, the British police and missing persons groups issued new appeals for information in the case. The case remains unsolved.