#15 - The Almost Double Deaths of the Disgruntled Dish Washer (Soho, London, W1)

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🗓️ 18 January 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

On Friday 12th May 1933, 31 year old disgruntled dish-washer Varnavros Antorka murdered his overbearing boss, head-chef Boleslaw Pankorski at Bellometti’s restaurant in Soho Square, and yet this brief moment of madness almost lead to him being convicted of double murder.

Date: Friday 12th May 1933
Location: 27 Soho Square (now demolished), Soho, London, W1
Victims: 1 (Boleslaw "Paul" Pankorski)
Culprit: Varnavros Loizi Antorka

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0:00.0	Welcome to Murder Mile.
0:09.0	A true crime podcast and audio guided walk featuring many of London's untold, unsolved and long-forgotten murders.
0:19.0	All set within one square mile of the West End.
0:22.6	Today's episode features the callous murder of Boloslav Pankorsky.
0:30.6	A Polish chef in an upmarket restaurant on Soho Square, who was murdered by his beleaguered underling, Vonavros
0:39.3	Antauqua, for quite possibly the pettiest motive ever.
0:44.3	And yet this single action almost led to him being tried for double murder.
0:53.3	MurderMile contains upsetting descriptions which may offend sensitive listeners, as well as
0:59.9	realistic sounds, so that no matter where you listen to this podcast, you'll feel like
1:06.2	you're actually there.
1:09.6	My name is Michael. I am your tour guide and this is Murder Mile. Episode 15,
1:18.6	the almost double deaths of the disgruntled dishwasher. Today I'm in Soho Square.
1:33.9	Originally called King Square, having been erected in the reign of Charles II,
1:39.7	Soho Square is an elegant 17th century tree-lined square square nestling in the northeast corner of Soho,
1:46.7	between Oxford Street and Old Compton Street, which is ringed by one-way traffic, lined with
1:53.0	parked cars, and surrounded by a slew of posh premises, for 20th century Fox, the British Board
1:59.8	of Film Classification, St Patrick's Church, the
2:03.1	house of St Barnabas, and the former home of FIFA, football's governing body, which oddly,
2:10.1	as a non-profit organisation, has cash reserves of over $1.4 billion.
2:16.8	Hmm.
2:18.3	In the centre of the square
2:20.3	sits a Tudor-style black-and-white timber potting shed
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