UK True Crime Podcast30 Apr 2024

A Shocking Murder: Episode 388

37 year old nurse Lisa Skidmore wasn’t feeling very well so didn't go to work and stayed home.

Lisa’s mum Margaret decided to head to Lisa’s house on her way to the shops to see how she was as they lived very close to each other. She let herself into Lisa house just like she has so many times before on this ordinary day. But there was nothing ordinary about this day.

Not long before, 55 year old Leroy Campbell had climbed into Lisa’s first floor bedroom using a ladder. Unbeknown to Lisa, three days earlier whilst wandering the local area, looking for someone to attack, he had clocked that Lisa lived alone and had identified her as someone he would attack. And this morning was the day he chose to carry out his attack...

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Sources
https://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmiprobation/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2018/09/HMI-Probation-Independent-Review-LC-Final-.pdf
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-48709283
https://juliebindel.substack.com/p/when-convicted-sexual-predator-leroy
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/lisa-skidmore-leroy-campbell-prison-probation-service-a8533151.html
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/lisaskidmoremagicmoments?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR2Nkz_SNFCCykYyi5UJo8IMirieoa_NBSmyX74cgD5wPqkQe0E7e2L2P14_aem_AfmbPy_sNT4XNVM8y80KwYtaf5fWXxFehRntF3X6irRMZRVyyd6oMAkBcfIq1UvCW3nV7dZ9nRKOABYKmqwiJYJT
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Politics-Edge-Memoir-Rory-Stewart/dp/1787332713

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