#103 - The Beating of Baby Richard (Soho child killer)
On Tuesday 4th October 1853, in a squalid first-floor lodging at 6 Little Dean Street, the beating of baby Richard began… and ten days later, he would be dead. Described as a ‘bastard’ child, his wido...
6 Aug 20201h 14min
#102 - The Five Alibis of James Forbes McCallum (Covent Garden, London, WC2)
On Friday 20th December 1940, James Forbes McCallum robbed the Coach & Horses public house in Covent Garden; he was a desperate man whose first and only robbery was ill-judged, unplanned and such a ca...
30 Jul 20201h 13min
#101 - The Fatal Seizure of John Esmond Murphy (Soho, London, W1)
On Saturday 7th November 1908, at 11:40am, John Esmond Murphy walked into the bank of Cartmell & Schlittle at 84 Shaftesbury Avenue. Overwhelming evidence pointed to the fact that he bungled a heist, ...
23 Jul 20201h 17min
#100 - The Martyr and the Massacre (Westminster, Sir Michael Francis O'Dwyer & Udham Singh)
On Wednesday 13th March 1940 at 4:30pm, in the Tudor Room of Caxton Hall, Udham Singh would murder Sir Michael O'Dwyer, a man he had never met before, but fuelled by hatred over twenty-one years, Udha...
16 Jul 20201h 9min
#99 - The Accidental Death of Amelia Pottle (Soho, London, W1)
On Sunday 29th May 1887, in the first-floor flat of 29 Great Windmill Street in Soho, twenty-year-old Amelie Pottle had a "little accident" with an oil-lamp which would lead to her slow and painful de...
9 Jul 20201h 12min
#98 - The Petty Grudge of Victor Castigador (Chinatown, London, W1)
At just before midnight on Sunday 2nd April 1989, Victor Castigador and his small gang of cohorts robbed the Leisure Investments amusement arcade at 23 Gerrard Street in Chinatown, but owing to a very...
2 Jul 20201h 17min
#97 - 'Christine Granville' - The Fall of a Forgotten Hero (Krystyna Skarbek, Spy)
On the evening of Sunday 15th June 1952, just inside the front-door of the Shelbourne Hotel at 1 Lexham Gardens, a 44-year-old lady known as 'Christine Granville' was murdered. She looked like a nobod...
11 Jun 20201h 19min
#96 - Zakaria Bulhan - The Terrorist Who Never Was
On the evening of Wednesday 3rd August 2016, a young Muslim man ran amok in Russell Square, he was armed with a knife and had killed one person and injured five, but as the press jumped to lazy conclu...
4 Jun 20201h
