#16 - Richard Rhodes Henley - the Seaman, the Semen and the murder of the Porn Peddler (Soho, London, W1)

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🗓️ 25 January 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

On Saturday 27th October 1956, 26 year old Canadian sailor Richard Rhodes Henley committed armed robbery for the first and very last time, but he didn’t steal money, or booze, or drugs to feed his habit, he stole pornography to fuel his addiction to masturbation, and yet, so desperate was his carnal needs that it would drive him to commit murder.

Date: Saturday 27th October 1956
Location: 82 Dean Street (now demolished), Soho, London, W1
Victims: 1 (John Alan Dixon Robinson)
Culprit: Richard Rhodes Henley

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0:00.0	Welcome to Murder Mile, a true crime podcast and audio-guided walk, featuring many of London's untold, unsolved, and long-forgotten murders, all set within one square mile of the West End.
0:23.6	Today's episode is about the senseless murder of Big Allen, the burly purveyor of illicit pornography on Dean Street, who was robbed by Richard Rhodes Henley.
0:35.6	A man so hopelessly addicted to his all-consuming
0:40.6	need to masturbate that it would drive him to kill. Murdomal contains bizarre,
0:48.2	lewd and often rude descriptions which may upset those who are easily offended, as well as realistic sounds,
0:56.5	so that no matter where you listen to this podcast, you'll feel like you're actually there.
1:04.3	My name is Michael, I am your tour guide, and this is Murder Mile.
1:11.6	Episode 16, Richard Rhodes Henley,
1:16.6	The Seaman, The Seaman, and the Murder of the Porn Peddler.
1:26.6	Today I'm on Dean Street, roughly 300 feet north of Old Compton Street and 300 feet south of Oxford Street,
1:39.3	in a part of Soho, so heavily renovated, scrubbed and sanitised, that much of Soho's originality
1:46.6	has been erased, as the property prudes move in, and any hint of originality moves out.
1:55.1	In fact, the only culture left in this part of Dean Street is the famous Soho Theatre, immediately behind me.
2:03.6	Where every night a wealth of right-on-whankers, dressed in beards, boots and feather-bowers,
2:09.6	waffle on about how literally yards from here Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto,
2:15.6	which they profess to know the finer points of, and yet
2:18.5	have never actually read, all whilst starving, having refused to eat sushi at Wagamamas,
2:24.7	because apparently they're allergic to fish, intolerant to rice, and are too full of their own
2:29.1	shit, and are now off to watch a dull arty play about one-legged Armenian strippers with AIDS,
2:35.8	knowing it'll be shit, but hoping that, besides being culturally enriching, it'll either have
2:41.7	boobs, bums or a cock in it. Today, 82 Dean Street has been entirely demolished and replaced by a yucky modern monstrosity.
2:54.7	And yet the area around 82 Dean Street is a far cry from the seedy street full of sex pests that it once was.
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