Murder Mile UK True Crime29 Sep 2022

#187 - The Bearded Man - Part One (Paddington, London, UK)

This is Part One of Two of The Bearded Man.

12:45am on Saturday 14th January 1956, at the junction of Hertford Street and Park Lane in Mayfair, 34-year-old sex-worker Robina Bolton known as Ruby was last seen alive. The next morning she was found murdered in Flat 7 at 32 Westbourne Terrace, a flat she shared with her husband Ernest.

Ernest would claim he last saw Ruby alive as she entered a taxi with an unidentified man. Seven hours later, he would stumble across the body of his wife having been brutally murdered in her bed.

As her pimp who was flat broke, the only other person with a key to the flat and a laughable alibi that she was due to meet a man no-one had seen who he knew only as ‘the bearded man’, as the Police’s chief suspect, Ernest was questioned on suspicion of her murder. But was this the truth, or a lie?

Date: Saturday 14th January 1956 at 12:45am (last seen alive)
Location: Flat 7, 32 Westbourne Terrace, Paddington, London, UK, W2
Victim: 1 (Robina Bolton/Pattinson, known as Ruby)
Culprits: 1 (Leonard Vincent Atter? Ernest Bolton?)
Keywords: prostitution, coercion, murder

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