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Murder Mile UK True Crime

#100 - The Martyr and the Massacre (Westminster, London, SW1)

Murder Mile UK True Crime

Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast

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🗓️ 16 July 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

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, Udham’s reason to kill would make him not just a murderer, but a martyr.

  • Date: Wednesday 13th March 1940
  • Location: Caxton Hall, 10 Caxton Street, Westminster, London, SW1
  • Victims: 1 (Sir Michael Francis O'Dwyer)
  • Culprits: 1 (Udham Singh)


Murder Mile is researched, written and performed by Michael J Buchanan-Dunne of Murder Mile Walks with music written and performed by Erik Stein and Jon Boux of Cult With No Name with additional music, as used under the Creative Commons License 4.0 (Attribution) via Free Music Archive and YouTube Music. A full listing of tracks used and a full transcript for each episode is listed here.


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0:00.0

Welcome to Murder Mile, a true crime podcast, an audio-guided walk, featuring many of

0:14.6

of London's untold, unsolved, and long-forgotten murders, all set within and beyond the West End.

0:23.6

Today's episode is about the assassination of Sir Michael O'Dwaiya by Udem Singh,

0:30.6

two strangers from very different worlds who had never met before the day of his death.

0:36.6

To many, his murder seemed almost random,

0:41.0

and yet Udem's reason to kill would make him a martyr. Murder Mile is researched using the

0:48.7

original police files. It contains moments of satire, shock and grisly details, and as a dramatization of the real events, it may also feature loud and realistic sounds, so that no matter where you listen to this podcast, you'll feel like you're actually there.

1:08.2

My name is Michael. I am your tour guide and this is Murder Mile.

1:15.9

Episode 100, The Martyr and the Massacre.

1:25.6

Today, I'm standing on Caxton Street in Westminster, SW1.

1:34.8

Four streets north of the left luggage kiosk where Patrick Marn dumped the hacked-up bits of Emily

1:40.5

Bell B.K. Three streets west of the mysterious murder house of Lord Lucan,

1:46.0

five streets southwest of the infamous Spaghetti House Siege, and three streets north of the

1:53.0

hammer-wielding butler Victor Ford Lloyd, coming soon to Murder Mile.

2:02.3

Westminster is the heart of the British political system,

2:06.1

as within spitting distance, a feat tested by so many protesters,

2:11.0

is 10 Downing Street, the foreign office, the relevant ministries and the houses of Parliament.

2:16.7

Where laws are made, lies are spouted,

2:19.3

and the same useless toothless morons

2:22.3

are made into ministers, swiftly sacked for being crap

2:26.3

and punished by being promoted.

2:29.3

Infamous for its protests,

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