#100 - The Martyr and the Massacre (Westminster, Sir Michael Francis O'Dwyer & Udham Singh)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2020
⏱️ 73 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)
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| 1:09.6 | Welcome to Murder Mile, a true crime podcast, an audio-guided walk, |
| 1:16.3 | featuring many of London's untold, unsolved, and long-forgotten murders, |
| 1:22.2 | all set within and beyond the West End. |
| 1:26.7 | Today's episode is about the assassination of Sir Michael O'Dwyer by Udem Singh, |
| 1:33.3 | two strangers from very different worlds who had never met before the day of his death. |
| 1:39.3 | To many, his murder seemed almost random, and yet Udem's reason to kill would make him a martyr. |
| 1:49.0 | Murder Mile is researched using the original police files. |
| 1:53.0 | It contains moments of satire, shock and grisly details, and as a dramatization of the real events, |
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