#168 - The Outcast (Kings Cross, London, UK)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 28 April 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
On Saturday 30th January 1965, at 10:50am, two men met for the very first time on the west bound Metropolitan Line of King’s Cross underground station. The first was a 44-year-old porter called Lawrence Gwyther, and the other was a 42-year-old homeless alcoholic called John Richie.
Until that very moment, the two men had never met. And although their brief interaction would last just a few seconds, this incident would change both of their lives forever. And yet, their paths would only cross owing to circumstances outside of their control.
- Date: Saturday 30th January 1965 at 10:50am
- Location: Westbound Hammersmith & City Line, King's Cross Station, London, England, N1
- Victims: 1 (Lawrence Francis Gwyther)
- Culprits: 1 (John Ritchie)
- Method: pushed in front of a train, manslaughter,
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murdemile. |
| 0:11.8 | Today, I'm standing at King's Cross Station. |
| 0:19.8 | Two roads south of where Glendor Michael's heroic afterlife began. |
| 0:24.7 | One road north of the sad-faced killer's hotel. |
| 0:28.6 | A few feet from where the Camden Ripper picked up sex workers. |
| 0:32.9 | And one road east of the man who mumbled. |
| 0:37.3 | Coming soon to Murdemile. |
| 0:44.5 | Belokings Cross sits a subsurface station, |
| 0:47.8 | which connects the Piccadilly, Northern, Victoria, Circle, |
| 0:51.6 | Bakerloo, Hammersmith and City, and the metropolitan lines. |
| 0:57.0 | As one of the busiest tube stations in Europe, |
| 0:59.9 | more than 150,000 people a day pass through this station. |
| 1:05.6 | For some, it's part of their commute or a place of work. |
| 1:09.9 | And for others, it's a place to stay dry and to beg for change. |
| 1:17.8 | King's Cross is a haven for the homeless. |
| 1:22.1 | Here you'll see such sad sites. |
| 1:24.6 | As a family of haggard refugees, huddled in a rain-sodden doorway. |
| 1:29.8 | A ragged mess dressed in nothing but a soiled duvet. |
| 1:34.4 | A brutally honest alcoholic who says, |
| 1:37.1 | honestly, mate, I just want to get pissed. |
| 1:41.2 | And my personal favorite, the red-headed man, |
| 1:44.6 | with the imaginative ploy, who once said to me, |
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