#43 - Marion Lees-Smith: The Rich Mum, the Deaf Son and the Paltry Sum (Marylebone, London, W2)
On 30th December 1942, in 112 Bryanston Court, Marion Lees-Smith was a single mother who was struggling alone to cope with the daily demands of Derek - her deaf and brain-damaged son. And as frustrate...
13 Sep 20181h 15min
#42 - The Death of David West by David West (Piccadilly, London, SW1)
On the afternoon of Friday 12th December 2014, in Ormond Yard, a quiet back-street at the back of a garish restaurant called Abracadabra, larger-than-life businessman David West Senior was brutally st...
6 Sep 20181h 4min
#41 - The Forgotten Truth about the Charlotte Street Robbery (Fitzrovia, London, W1)
On Friday 19th September 1947, two robbers - Christopher James Geraghty and Charles Henry Jenkins - were executed having killed an innocent bystander whilst in pursuit of a robbery, as no-one could pr...
30 Aug 20181h 9min
#40 - The Fascinating Life, Death and After-Life of Glyndwr Michael (Operation Mincemeat)
On Tuesday 26th January 1943, somewhere at the back of King’s Cross station, in an unknown derelict warehouse, Glyndwr Michael; a nobody, a nothing, a homeless man became a hero, and although he saved...
23 Aug 20181h 13min
#39 - George Thomas Picking: The Silent Killer (Soho, London, W1
George Thomas Pickering – The Silent Killer: on Monday 8th October 1963, in the first floor flat of 12 Brewer Street in Soho, W1, a hard-working husband and doting father-of three, brutally murdered a...
16 Aug 20181h 10min
#38 - Justice for Martine Vik Magnussen (Fitzrovia, London, W1)
Justice for Martine Vik Magnussen: On the morning of Sunday 16th March 2008, the body of 23 year old Martine Vik Magnussen was found raped and strangled in the basement of 222 Great Portland Street, L...
9 Aug 20181h 14min
#37 - The Wasted Life of Larry Winters (Soho, London, W1)
On Sunday 14th June 1964, in the bar-room of The White Horse public house on Rupert Street in Soho, 21 year old Larry Winters shot 44 year old barman Paddy O'Keefe to death, having never met him befor...
2 Aug 20181h 25min
#36 - Love, Loss and the Lingering Death of Helen Mary Pickwoad (Oxford Street, London, W1)
Love, Loss and the Lingering Death of Helen Mary Pickwoad: 27 year old Helen Mary Pickwoad thought she’d fallen in love with the man of her dreams, an Army Captain called Edward Tickell, but on Wednes...
26 Jul 20181h 15min
