EVIDENCE in the 30-year-old unsolved murder of Bunny Girl Eve Stratford is being analysed again by police.

Forensic scientists are also reviewing evidence gathered during the investigation into the murder of pregnant Chingford croupier Lynda Farrow.

She was killed four years after Ms Stratford in almost identical circumstances and her killer has also never been found.

Ms Stratford, 21, who worked at the Playboy Club in Mayfair, was found stabbed to death at her home in Lyndhurst Drive, Leyton, on March 18, 1975.

Her throat had been cut, almost severing her head from her body, and her hands were tied behind her back.

Pathologist Professor Keith Simpson said at the inquest that Ms Stratford, who was born in Germany to a British serviceman and a German mother, died of shock as blood poured from multiple wounds to her neck.

Just before her murder, Ms Stratford, who was described as a girl who could "turn any man's head", posed naked in a picture spread for Mayfair magazine and detectives feared it might have sparked the killing.

But despite an extensive murder hunt by the borough's top detectives, neither her killer nor the murder weapon has ever been found.

Mrs Farrow, who was four months pregnant, was found by her two young daughters stabbed to death in the home she shared with her boyfriend in Whitehall Road on January 19, 1979.

Mrs Farrow, who worked at the International Sports Club in Mayfair, had also had her throat severely cut.

Neither of the woman had been sexually assaulted.

Police have always believed the murders could be connected and a Met Police spokeswoman confirmed to the Guardian that their deaths were being reviewed.

She said advances in forensic science and new technology meant the cases were being looked at to see if new evidence came to light.

If fresh clues are found, the cases will be passed back to detectives to re-investigate.

The murders have a number of links. They were both stabbed and killed during the day, they both worked at West End nightspots and could have been followed home from work.

Their homes were just five miles apart, they were both blondes in their 20s and police found no evidence of a violent struggle or forced entry at either of their homes.