#166 - The Bloody Butler - Part One (Belgravia, London, Britain)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 14 April 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
This is Part One of Two.
On the next morning of Sunday 10th August at 09:08am, Victor Ford-Lloyd the butler to Sir William Ackroyd entered the top floor flat at 69 Eaton Place after a night out. In the master bedroom, he found his friend, his lover and the man servant to Sir William dead. Having died several hours earlier, he was lying motionless, with a sticky pool of congealed blood about his head, having had his skull brutally smashed in with a hammer.
But why?
Was this a robbery? A revenge killing? Or an attack on an openly gay man? With Sir William in Scotland and Victor at several clubs in the city at the time of the murder, neither witnessed the attack, or saw any potential suspects. So, what happened, and who murdered Sir William’s manservant?
- Date: Sunday 10th August 1966 at 9:08am (call to the police)
- Location: Flat 3, 69 Eaton Place, Belgravia, London, UK, SW1
- Victims: 1 (Frank William Hocking)
- Culprits: 1 (Victor Norman Ford-Lloyd)
- Keywords: stabbing, strangling, robbery,
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile. |
| 0:11.0 | Today, I'm standing on Eton Place in Bale |
| 0:20.0 | S.W. 1. |
| 0:22.5 | Three streets east of the unsolved death of Countess Lubienzka. |
| 0:27.2 | Two streets south of Acid Bath Murderer John George Haig. |
| 0:32.1 | Two streets west of not-so-lucky Lord Lucan. |
| 0:35.7 | A case so dull and done to death that I will never cover it on this podcast. |
| 0:41.7 | And two streets south of the boy who killed, because a film star told him to. |
| 0:48.7 | Coming soon to Murder Mile. |
| 0:54.8 | Eaton Place is a very posh neighborhood. |
| 0:58.0 | Being a wide semi-private street, |
| 1:01.0 | consisting of two lines of five-story buildings made of Portland stone |
| 1:05.0 | with huge doeric columns to the side of each main door. |
| 1:09.0 | This area is so posh. |
| 1:11.6 | The average house is worth 40 million pounds, |
| 1:14.6 | and most residents are knighted. |
| 1:17.6 | Whether that's a CBE for tax avoidance, |
| 1:21.6 | an MBE for going to Eaton, |
| 1:24.6 | an OBE for being a jolly good egg, a K-C-G for covering up a politician's little |
| 1:31.6 | snafu with a pig and his willie, a ladyship for being pals with a royal, not that |
| 1:38.3 | one, or a lordship for services to charity, but only when it benefits their bank balance. |
| 1:49.0 | Sadly, although architecturally pleasant, there's no community. |
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