From the 31st of January 1980 to the 1st of August 1983, on neighbouring streets across the London postcodes of W2, SW6, with two in SW1 and two in SW10, six gay men were murdered - Henry Carr, Dr Richard Mercy, Carlos Mery-Squella, Anthony Bird, Harry Williams and Peter Arne. They were linked by detectives as they had all been sadistically stabbed, battered, and sometimes posed and set alight. But who was the slayer of gay men in London’s West End?
Location #1: Henry Carr, top floor flat,52 Cathcart Road, Kensington, SW10 Location #2: Dr Richard Mercy, Flat 5, 34 Eaton Place, Belgravia, SW1 Location #3: Carlos Mery-Sequella, Flat 2, 22 Gunter Grove, West Brompton, Kensington, SW10 Location #4: Anthony Jackson Bird, Bentley Court, 72-74 Kensington Gardens Square, Bayswater, W2 Location #5: Harry Williams, flat unknown, Bagley’s Lane in Fulham, SW6 Location #6: Peter Arne, ground floor flat, 54 Hans Place in Kensington, SW1 Culprit: ?
Five time nominated at the True Crime Awards, Independent Podcast Awards and the British Podcast Awards, Murder Mile is one of the best UK / British true crime podcasts covering only 20 square miles of West London. It is researched, written and performed by Michael of Murder Mile UK True Crime Podcast with the main musical themes written and performed by Erik Stein and Jon Boux of Cult With No Name and additional music, as used under the Creative Commons License 4.0. A full listing of tracks used and a full transcript for each episode is listed here and a legal disclaimer.
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#340 - The Real 'H' (Line of Duty, Operation Countryman)
19.03.2026 | 1 godz. 3 min.
BBC TV drama series ‘Line of Duty’, a police procedural follows the exploits of AC12 (Anti-Corruption Unit 12), based on the Metropolitan Police’s A10, established in 1971 to root out corruption within the force. In the upcoming seventh series they will unravel the conundrum of who is ‘H’, the Police’s highest ranking corrupt officer, who many believe was fictional…
…but he wasn’t, he was real. This is the story of Operation Countrymen, the investigation to root out corrupt coppers' in the Police force, the robberies which led to its downfall, the lives which were lost, the 'good officers' who were worse than criminals and the man who was at the very top of the corruption - 'H'. The dates and places of the robberies:
Location #1: Daily Express, 120-129 Fleet Street, London, EC4 Date #1: Monday 3rd of May 1976 Location #2: Williams & Glyn's Bank, 67 Lombard Street, London, EC3 Date #2: Tuesday 27th Sept 1977 Location #3: Daily Mirror, 33 Holborn Circus, London, EC1 Date #3: Wednesday 31st May 1978 Victims: Antonio Castro Culprit: Commander Hugh Moore, DCI Philip Cuthbert, and the many unnamed criminals they held evade justice
Five time nominated at the True Crime Awards, Independent Podcast Awards and the British Podcast Awards, Murder Mile is one of the best UK / British true crime podcasts covering only 20 square miles of West London. It is researched, written and performed by Michael of Murder Mile UK True Crime Podcast with the main musical themes written and performed by Erik Stein and Jon Boux of Cult With No Name and additional music, as used under the Creative Commons License 4.0. A full listing of tracks used and a full transcript for each episode is listed here and a legal disclaimer.
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#339 - Headless (Kilburn, London)
12.03.2026 | 1 godz. 1 min.
Wednesday the 6th of February 2008, the body of Lakhdar Ouyahia was found by the bins on Kingsgate Place in KIlburn, wrapped in a duvet. Someone had attempted to cut off his limbs and had decapitated his head. But who had killed this good and decent man, why had his neighbour vanished, and why had an innocent woman been tortured for 14 hours?
Location:2a Kingsgate Road, KIlburn, London, UK, NW6 Date: Sunday 3rd of February 2008 to Wednesday the 6th of February 2008 Victims: Lakhdar Ouyahia and an unnamed woman Culprit: Mohamed Boudjenane
Five time nominated at the True Crime Awards, Independent Podcast Awards and the British Podcast Awards, Murder Mile is one of the best UK / British true crime podcasts covering only 20 square miles of West London. It is researched, written and performed by Michael of Murder Mile UK True Crime Podcast with the main musical themes written and performed by Erik Stein and Jon Boux of Cult With No Name and additional music, as used under the Creative Commons License 4.0. A full listing of tracks used and a full transcript for each episode is listed here and a legal disclaimer.
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#338 - Death by Gilbert & George (Kye Soo Kim, Hyun-Han Jin & In-Hea Song)
05.03.2026 | 1 godz. 5 min.
From the end of October to the start of December 2001, an unspecified two-roomed second-floor flat on Eagle Street in Holborn was a warm and welcoming guesthouse rented out to two Korean students exploring London. As strangers in a notoriously dangerous city, they did everything right to ensure their safety, as London isn’t for the faint hearted. And although they stayed within confines of their tight-knit community, their sadistic killer was hiding in plain sight.
Location #1: unknown number, ‘Beckley’ 47-51 Eagle Street, Holborn, London, WC2 Location #2: unknown number, Lansbury Estate, Augusta Street, Poplar, London, E14 Date: 8th or 9th of December 1913 and 27th October 2001 Victims: Hyun-Han Jin and In-Hea Song Culprit: Kye Soo Kim
Five time nominated at the True Crime Awards, Independent Podcast Awards and the British Podcast Awards, Murder Mile is one of the best UK / British true crime podcasts covering only 20 square miles of West London. It is researched, written and performed by Michael of Murder Mile UK True Crime Podcast with the main musical themes written and performed by Erik Stein and Jon Boux of Cult With No Name and additional music, as used under the Creative Commons License 4.0. A full listing of tracks used and a full transcript for each episode is listed here and a legal disclaimer.
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#337 - "Everything is Broken" (William & Eliza Smith, St Giles, WC2)
26.02.2026 | 1 godz.
On the 8th or 9th of December 1913, William & Eliza, now in their late 60s or early 70s were curled up in front of the fire in their small lodging on New Compton Street in St Giles in Holborn, London. Their life had been an unbearable tragedy which had tested every ounce of their love and strength, and yet, one more punishment was yet to come for this couple who deserved to die a dignified death. This a story about grief and how we all cope with it in our own way
Locations:basement flat, unrecorded number New Compton Street, London, WC2 Date: 8th or 9th of December 1913 Victims:William & Eliza Smith Culprit: ?
Five time nominated at the True Crime Awards, Independent Podcast Awards and the British Podcast Awards, Murder Mile is one of the best UK / British true crime podcasts covering only 20 square miles of West London. It is researched, written and performed by Michael of Murder Mile UK True Crime Podcast with the main musical themes written and performed by Erik Stein and Jon Boux of Cult With No Name and additional music, as used under the Creative Commons License 4.0. A full listing of tracks used and a full transcript for each episode is listed here and a legal disclaimer.
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SEVEN TIME AWARD NOMINATED at the True Crime Awards 2025, Independent Podcast Awards and the British Podcast Awards as Best True Crime Podcast. Murder Mile UK True Crime is a unique London-based true-crime podcast, focused on Soho, the West End and West London, presented as a guided walk of 300+ untold, unsolved and long-forgotten murder cases.If you’re looking for intensely researched and in-depth multipart series, Murder Mile has covered spree killer Gordon Cummings aka 'The Blackout Ripper', John George Haigh 'The Acid Bath Murderer', John Reginald Christie of '10 Rillington Place', Anthony Hardy 'The Camden Ripper', Dennis Nilsen 'The Muswell HIll Killer', The Thames Towpath Murderer, Daniel Gonzales 'The Freddy Krueger killer', The Soho Strangler regarded as the second Jack the Ripper, Michael Jamieson The Shoe Box Killer, M4 r*pist John Steed, London cannibal Peter Bryan, and ‘the Devil’s Disciple’ Patrick MacKay, and coming soon, the Hammersmith Nudes alias ‘Jack the Stripper’. As well an unearthing new angle and evidence on infamous British murder cases; such as Gunther Podola, Emmy Werner, David Frooms, Alice Gross, Andrezej Kunowski, Katerina Koneva, Emily Beilby Kaye, The Denmark Place Fire, The Bombing of the Admiral Duncan, Alfredo Zomparelli, Karl Gustav Hulton, and previously unsolved cases like 'The Night Porter', Gladys Hanrahan, ‘Fat Fred’, The Old Lady Killer, the Bayswater arsonist, the gay panic, and a wealth of cases you won’t have heard before, and won’t hear anywhere else, as well as specialists pathologist Sir Bernard Spilsbury.Covering just 20 square miles of West London, Murder Mile gives into thrilling and heart-wrenching cases involving serial killers, assassinations, massacres, hitmen, torturers, drug dealers, cults, child killers, extortion, prostitution, gangland slayings, abortionists, poisoners, slavery, and personal tragedy.Having garnered more than 3000+ five-star reviews, Murder Mile has been praised in the press as Podcast Magazine's Hot 50, The Telegraph's Top 5, 4th Best True-Crime Podcast by This Week, iTunes Top 25 Podcast, Crime & Investigation Channel's Top 20 True-Crime Podcasts, also seen on BBC Radio, Sky News, The Guardian and TalkRadio's Podcast of the Week. Murder Mile has been the primary research on true crime podcasts Casefile, Morbid, My Favorite Murder, and Michael was also a consultant on highly acclaimed podcast series Bad Woman: The Blackout Ripper hosted by historian Hallie Rubenhold, author of 'The Five'. Murder Mile UK True Crime has had 15 million+ downloads and continues to grow year on year, as it maintains (and improves on) its quality in research, storytelling and sound design. It continually strives to be original, different and always bring the audience a podcast series they can’t hear anywhere else. Murder Mile is unique and its fans appreciate that. Follow me on SOCIAL MEDIA · Instagram· FaceBook· ThreadsOr search for everything on KomiSupport the show via PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/murdermile. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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