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The Murder Mile was an informal nickname for Ledra Street, in Nicosia, Cyprus. It was called thus by British forces during the EOKA campaign of the late 1950s, due to the hazards presented to patrolling British troops by nationalist fighters.[1]
The term has since been used to describe various dangerous areas, normally characterised by high crime, such as the streets surrounding Lower and Upper Clapton Roads in Hackney in East London,[2] or a section of North Belfast in Northern Ireland. It is mentioned in this context in the Elvis Costello song Oliver's Army.
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