Share

cover art for #341 - London's Forgotten 'Gay Slayer' (W2, SW6, SW1 and SW10)

Murder Mile UK True Crime

#341 - London's Forgotten 'Gay Slayer' (W2, SW6, SW1 and SW10)

•

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.


Follow me on SOCIAL MEDIA

·      Instagram

·      FaceBook

·      Threads


SUBSCRIBE via Patreon


More episodes

View all episodes

  • #363 - The Beast of Bedsitland - Part 2 of 2 (Ronald Evans, Clifton, Bristol)

    01:03:00|
    This is Part Two of Two of The Beast of Bedsitland.As one of Britain’s longest serving prisoners, Ronald Evans has been incarcerated for more than 55 years for GBH, ABH, rape and murder, and has never expressed any true remorse for his victims. Aged 22, he murdered Kathleen Heathcote in Mansfield, across the late 1970s he terrorised the city of Bristol being known as ‘The Clifton Rapist’ and even in his 80s, he committed a sexual assault. So why wasn’t he rehabilitated?Location:Brickyard Tip, off Princes Street, Mansfield, DerbyshireDate: Thursday 21st of November 1963 at 11pm (murder)Victims: Kathleen Rita HeathcoteCulprit:Ronald EvansSeven 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 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.Follow me on SOCIAL MEDIA ·          Instagram·          FaceBook·          Threads·          TokTok·          YouTubeSUBSCRIBE via Patreon

  • #362 - The Beast of Bedsitland - Part 1 of 2 (Ronald Evans, Kathleen Heathcote)

    01:03:06|
    This is Part One of Two of The Beast of Bedsitland.As one of Britain’s longest serving prisoners, Ronald Evans has been incarcerated for more than 55 years for GBH, ABH, rape and murder, and has never expressed any true remorse for his victims. Aged 22, he murdered Kathleen Heathcote in Mansfield, across the late 1970s he terrorised the city of Bristol being known as ‘The Clifton Rapist’ and even in his 80s, he committed a sexual assault. So why wasn’t he rehabilitated?Location:Brickyard Tip, off Princes Street, Mansfield, DerbyshireDate: Thursday 21st of November 1963 at 11pm (murder)Victims: Kathleen Rita HeathcoteCulprit:Ronald EvansSeven 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 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.Follow me on SOCIAL MEDIA ·          Instagram·          FaceBook·          Threads·          TokTok·          YouTubeSUBSCRIBE via Patreon

  • #361 - The Vanishing of Wendy Upton (Lichfield, Steven Salisbury)

    01:05:40|
    Wednesday the 7th of October 1998, 40-year-old Wendy Upton of Lichfield went to her local Tesco’s to buy the basics, and vanished without a trace. For nine months, there was no trace of her; no sightings, no calls and her bank account wasn’t touched, her husband believed she had been murdered, but the Police held firm to their belief that she was missing, had fled, or had overdosed.But what was the truth, and how did her killer subvert the investigation to his own need?Seven 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 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.Follow me on SOCIAL MEDIA ·          Instagram·          FaceBook·          Threads·          TokTok·          YouTubeSUBSCRIBE via Patreon

  • #360 - Who 'Rolled' Tommy Walker? (Polesworth, Martin O'Halloran & Albert Langford)

    58:51|
    Thursday the 5th of June 1975, hairdresser William ‘Tommy’ Walker headed into Birmingham to buy supplies, he went to a few bars, and the nest day, his body was found 6 miles from his home, in a lover’s lane having been beaten to death and robbed. The police convicted two men of his murder, but how safe was this conviction?  Location: bridleway, off B4116 Coleshill Road, Bentley, Warwickshire Date: Thursday the 5th of June 1975 between 11 and 12pm (murder)Victims: William ‘Tommy’ WalkerCulprit: Martin O’Halloran & Albert LangfordSeven 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 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.Follow me on SOCIAL MEDIA ·          Instagram·          FaceBook·          Threads·          TokTok·          YouTubeSUBSCRIBE via Patreon

  • #359 - Buried Under Lies (Dhirajlal & Lalitaben Ladva, Rugby)

    01:02:59|
    Sunday 9th of October 1983, at around noon, roughly 75 yards north of the Coventry Canal, homeless man, George Cunningham was shuffling up the Old Leicester Road, when he discovered the body of 30-year-old wife and mother-of-three Lalitaben Ladva of Rugby. She had been strangled, beaten with a hammer, and her body dumped. It seemed like a motiveless crime, but a series of lies and deceptions by her killer would unearth the selfish reason for her murder.Location: Old Leicester Road, Rugby, Warwickshire, Date: Tuesday 8th of October 1983 between 11 and 12pm (murder)Victims: Lalitaben LadvaCulprit: Dhirajlal LadvaSeven 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 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.Follow me on SOCIAL MEDIA ·          Instagram·          FaceBook·          Threads·          TokTok·          YouTubeSUBSCRIBE via Patreon

  • #358 - Evil Little Droog - Part 2 of 2 (Peter Foster & Linda Wardill, Bridlington)

    01:05:04|
    This is Part 2 of 2 of Evil Little Droog.From 1976 to 2003, Peter Allan Foster of Bridlington committed a string of vicious and brutal attacks on his girlfriends and wives, including holding them hostage, kidnapping them at knifepoint, strangling, beating, shooting, coercion, and two counts of murder. But how did he evade justice for so long, and what has any of this got to do with his obsession – the 1973 film, A Clockwork Orange.Locations: various across Bridlington, East Riding, YorkshireDates: 1976 to 2003Victims: Linda Grimm nee Peacock, Linda Wardill, Lindy Foster nee Derham, Margaret Foster nee Manningham, Kathryn Portelli, Julie Dixon, Amanda Broadbent nee Thorpe, Culprit: Peter Allan FosterSeven 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 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.Follow me on SOCIAL MEDIA ·          Instagram·          FaceBook·          Threads·          TokTok·          YouTubeSUBSCRIBE via Patreon

  • #357 - Evil Little Droog - Part 1 of 2 (Peter Foster & Linda Grimm, Bridlington)

    01:02:07|
    This is Part 1 of 2 of Evil Little Droog.From 1976 to 2003, Peter Allan Foster of Bridlington committed a string of vicious and brutal attacks on his girlfriends and wives, including holding them hostage, kidnapping them at knifepoint, strangling, beating, shooting, coercion, and two counts of murder. But how did he evade justice for so long, and what has any of this got to do with his obsession – the 1973 film, A Clockwork Orange.Locations: various across Bridlington, East Riding, YorkshireDates: 1976 to 2003Victims: Linda Grimm nee Peacock, Linda Wardill, Lindy Foster nee Derham, Margaret Foster nee Manningham, Kathryn Portelli, Julie Dixon, Amanda Broadbent nee Thorpe, Culprit: Peter Allan FosterSeven 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 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.Follow me on SOCIAL MEDIA ·          Instagram·          FaceBook·          Threads·          TokTok·          YouTubeSUBSCRIBE via Patreon

  • #356 - A Clockwork Orange Killer (David McManus & Richard Palmer, Fenny Stratford)

    01:04:42|
    Wednesday 4th of April 1973 at 11pm, on the porch of St Martin’s Church in Fenny Stratford, Buckinghamshire, 60-year-old homeless man, David McManus was beaten to death in an attack identical to a fictional killing in the book ‘A Clockwork Orange’ by Anthony Burgess and the controversial film by director Stanley Kubrick. But who was to blame, the book, the film or the killer?Location: St Martin’s Church, Watling/Aylesbury Street, Fenny Stratford, BuckinghamshireDate: Wednesday 4th of April 1973 at 11pm-ishVictims: David McManusCulprit: Richard John PalmerSeven 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.Follow me on SOCIAL MEDIA ·          Instagram·          FaceBook·          Threads·          TokTok·          YouTubeSUBSCRIBE via Patreon

  • #355 - The UK's Penultimate School Shooting (Higham Ferrers, Northants)

    01:06:36|
    On Wednesday 8th of January 1988, at 3:25pm, expelled pupil 16-year-old Darren Fowler entered the Ferrers School in the town of Higham Ferrers with two knives, 25 cartridges and a shotgun. He had written a suicide note, and planned to get revenge on those who had wronged him. By 3:37pm, it was over. But unlike the Dunblane massacre, it is largely forgotten, and why, like the Dormers Wells school shooting did it not lead for stricter gun control? This was the UK’s penultimate school shooting.Location: Ferrers School, Queensway, Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire,  Date: Wednesday 8th of January 1988, 3:29pm to 3:37pmVictims: Ronnie Sherratt, Simon Druce, Jane Lucas, Michael CousinsCulprit: Darren FowlerSeven 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.Follow me on SOCIAL MEDIA ·          Instagram·          FaceBook·          Threads·          TokTok·          YouTube SUBSCRIBE via Patreon