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Murder Mile UK True Crime

#133 - The Termination of El-Al Flight 016 (Terrorism, Mayfair)

Murder Mile UK True Crime

Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast

History, Society & Culture, True-crime, London, English, Uk, British, Murder, True Crime, Killer, Crime, Documentary

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🗓️ 27 May 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Today’s episode is about one of the most disturbing acts of terrorism to be perpetrated in London’s West End. So shocking and violent, it was unlike anything we had seen before. But outside of the victim’s loved ones, this tragedy is practically forgotten.

  • Date: Sunday 20th August 1978 at 1:34pm
  • Location: The Europa Hotel, Duke Street, Mayfair, London, UK, W1 (now the London Marriot)
  • Victims: 1 killed (Irit Gidron), 8 injured (including Michel Unger. Yehudit “Judith” Arnon and Yulie Cohen Gerstel)
  • Culprits: Fahad Mihiyi (plus one other never identified)
  • Keywords: Israel, Palestine, explosion, guns, bombs,


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0:00.0

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

0:14.5

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

0:24.6

Today's episode is about one of the most disturbing acts of terrorism to be perpetrated in London's West End.

0:31.6

So shocking and violent, it was unlike anything we had seen before,

0:36.6

but outside of the victim's loved ones,

0:40.3

this tragedy is practically forgotten.

0:44.3

Murder-Miley's research used in authentic sources. It contains moments of satire, shock and grisly details,

0:52.3

and as a dramatization of the real events, it may also feature

0:56.2

loud and realistic sounds, so that no matter where you listen to this podcast, you'll feel

1:02.9

like you're actually there. My name is Michael, I am your tour guide and this is Murder Mile.

1:11.6

Episode 133, the termination of LL Flight 016. Today, I'm standing on Duke Street in Mayfair, W1.

1:36.3

Three streets east of the High Park bombing, one street of the assassination of Alexander Lidvenienko,

1:43.3

one street south of Elsie Goldsmith's

1:46.3

electrical abortion, and one street north of the slaughtered family of Joseph King, coming soon

1:53.9

to murder mile. Interconnecting with the bustling shopping splurge of Oxford Street

2:01.6

and running parallel with the overpriced hotels of Park Lane,

2:05.6

Duke Street is one of those posh little places which is unremittingly vague.

2:11.6

It's almost as if it doesn't want to be remembered for anything.

2:20.3

Look up any wall in Mayfair and you'll see a series of plaques commemorating all manner of historical nonsense.

2:27.3

As with stately pomp, they proudly declare,

2:31.3

here an author sneezed, here an actor breathed, and here a businessman did something

2:37.0

good for the poor, so please ignore their sex crimes, their fraud and their history as a slave

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