TRIPLE NOMINATED at the True Crime Awards 2025 and nominated for the Best True Crime Podcast at the British Podcast Awards.Murder Mile UK True Crime is a unique...
#291 - The Scourge of Soho (Ernest Pink & Det Sgt Harold Challoner)
On Saturday 25th of May 1963 at 12:20am, four men were ejected from The Establishment Club on Greek Street in Soho. They left without a struggle, with no blood spilled, no damage done and nobody hurt. And yet, with accusations of corruption, violence and an attempted murder in its wake, it sparked a criminal trial and an inquiry which almost brought down the Metropolitan Police, courtesy of one of West End Central’s most corrupt officers – Detective Sergeant Harold ‘Tanky’ Challoner.Murder Mile is one of the best UK / British true crime podcasts covering only 20 square miles of West London. Triple nominated at the True Crime Awards and nominated at the British Podcast Awards. 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.Date: Saturday 25th of May 1963 at 12:20am (time of arrest)Location: The Establishment Club, 18 Greek Street, Soho, London, W1Victim: 4 (Ernest George Pink, Robert Joseph Brown, William Francis and Frederick Bridgeman)Culprits: 8 (Det Serg Kenneth Etheridge, Det Sgt Harold Gordon Challoner, Det Con James Robb, Det Con Clifford Smith, Det Con Donald Robinson, PC Normal Birch, PC David Jenkins and PC Owen Tweedy).For links click hereTo subscribe via Patreon, click here Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/murdermile. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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#290 - A God called JACKIE (Aravindan Balakrishnan, Brixton, UK)
On Friday 25th of October 2013 at 11:15am, charity workers aided by the police coordinated the escape of several followers from a flat in Brixton. Some of the women had been held for 30+ years, one for her entire life, but they didn't see themselves as hostages, as having began living life in the commune under a political belief, they didn't realise it had become a cult, under the control of their leader 'Comrade Bala' and a God-machine called JACKIE. Date: Friday 25th of October 2013 at 11:15am (their release)Commune 1: 60 Shakespeare Road, Herne Hill, London, SE24Commune 2: 1C Peckford Place, Brixton, London, SW9,Bookshop: Mao Zedong Memorial Centre, 140 Acre Lane, Brixton, SW2Victim: several (including Katy Morgan-Davies, Sian Davies, Josephine Herivel, Aishah Abdul Wahab, Oh Kar Eng )Culprits: 1 (Aravindan Balakrishnan, aka Comrade Bala, or AB)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.For links click hereTo subscribe via Patreon, click here Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/murdermile. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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#289 - The Chalk Pit Murder - Part Two (Thomas John Ley, Kensington, London)
This is Part Two of Two of The Chalk Pit Murder. On Thursday 28th of November 1946, Australian politician Thomas Ley enlisted four good people to help him trap a bad man who terrorised women. As a simple plan with no law broken and nobody hurt, it was a gentlemanly reaction to a dastardly crime by a criminal who they felt deserved worse. Only what began as a good deed by four decent and moral people, soon descended into deceit and death. Date: Thursday 28th of November 1946 at 7:00pm+ (murder of John Mudie)Location: 5 Beaufort Gardens, Knightsbride, London, SW3 (Ley's house, with entrance being on Brompton Place)Victim: 1 (John McMain Mudie, known as Jack)Culprits: 5 (Thomas John Ley & Lawrence John Smith, plus co-conspirators John William Buckingham Snr, Lilian Florence Bruce & John Buckingham Jnr) 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.For links click hereTo subscribe via Patreon, click here Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/murdermile. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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#288 - The Chalk Pit Murder - Part One (John McMain Mudie, Kensington, UK)
This is Part One of Two of The Chalk Pit Murder. On Thursday 28th of November 1946, Australian politician Thomas Ley enlisted four good people to help him trap a bad man who terrorised women. As a simple plan with no law broken and nobody hurt, it was a gentlemanly reaction to a dastardly crime by a criminal who they felt deserved worse. Only what began as a good deed by four decent and moral people, soon descended into deceit and death.Date: Thursday 28th of November 1946 at 7:00pm+ (murder of John Mudie)Location: 5 Beaufort Gardens, Knightsbride, London, SW3 (Ley's house, with entrance being on Brompton Place)Victim: 1 (John McMain Mudie, known as Jack)Culprits: 5 (Thomas John Ley & Lawrence John Smith, plus co-conspirators John William Buckingham Snr, Lilian Florence Bruce & John Buckingham Jnr)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.For links click hereTo subscribe via Patreon, click here Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/murdermile. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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#287 - The PIN Heads (Xyaire Howard / Chelsea Grant)
On Tuesday 6th of September 2022, 71-year-old Susan Hawkey was last seen entering her flat on Aylesbury Street in Neasden. Nobody saw her, nobody heard her, and – although vulnerable and afraid - no-one was looking out for her. And yet, the quiet isolation of her flat aided her brutal torture and murder by a pack of brainless thugs.Date: Tuesday 6th of September 2022 (mid afternoon, last seen alive)Location: ground floor flat, 65a Aylesbury Street, Neasden, London, UK, NW10Victim: 1 (Susan Anne Hawkey)Culprits: 2 (Xyaire Howard & Chelsea Grant)Method: tortureMurder 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.For links click hereTo subscribe via Patreon, click here Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/murdermile. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
TRIPLE NOMINATED at the True Crime Awards 2025 and nominated for the Best True Crime Podcast at the British Podcast Awards.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. Praised as one of the best London, British, English and UK True Crime podcasts, as well as 4th Best True-Crime Podcast by This Week, iTunes Top 25 Podcast, Podcast Magazine's Hot 50, The Telegraph's Top 5, Crime & Investigation Channel's Top 20 True-Crime Podcasts, also seen on BBC Radio, Sky News, The Guardian and Talk Radio's Podcast of the Week. Researched using the declassified police investigation files and court records.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/murdermile. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.