#183 - Captain J A Ritchie and the End of the War (Soho, London, Britain)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 1 September 2022
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
At a little after 11:30pm on Friday 14th September 1945, Captain John Ritchie of the Canadian Army was attacked on Bourchier Street by two British soldiers clutching half a brick. But why? This is a case less about the man who died, or the men who did it, but how a war had shaped and then broke them?
- Date: Friday 14th September 1945 at 11:30pm
- Location: Bourchier Street, Soho, London, UK, W1 (incorrectly marked in the press as Romilly Street)
- Victims: 1 (Captain John Alexander Ritchie)
- Culprits: 2 (Robert Blaine and Charles "Jock" Connolly)
- Keywords: WW2, AWOL, robbery, money,
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile. |
| 0:12.0 | Today, I'm standing on Borshire Street in Soho, W1. |
| 0:24.1 | At the back of the unsolved murder of Dutch Lear, a few doors down from the beating of baby Richard, |
| 0:31.0 | a few doors up from the failed poisoning of Henry Hall's family, and one street north of the Stockholm syndrome of Susan Latine, |
| 0:41.6 | coming soon to Murder Mile. |
| 0:47.5 | Bourcier Street is grim. |
| 0:51.7 | It sounds posh as the name originates from the French, Boisier, meaning keeper of the purse. |
| 0:59.0 | Except the only purse is unveiled in this drably lally. |
| 1:03.4 | Are the ones a little scroters robbed, so he can blow a tenor on enough scag to make a lightweight microbe mildly merry, or the kind of drunk |
| 1:13.4 | gents whittle dribbles down as he struggles to paint his own shadow in wee-wee. |
| 1:20.6 | Oh yes, this is a real hovel, being little more than a dark alley, hidden by the backs of brothels, apparently. |
| 1:34.8 | In 1945, Bouchier Street was worse than it is today. A 60 to 64 old Compton Street had been hit by a 25-kilo bomb, which had reduced it to piles |
| 1:47.7 | of rubble and burnt out facie. |
| 1:52.3 | With no shops, this was little more than a place to take a sneaky detour, to empty |
| 1:57.8 | your bladder, or to lay in wait for your next victim. |
| 2:03.6 | At a little after 11.30pm, on Friday the 14th of September, 1945, Captain John |
| 2:12.6 | Richie of the Canadian Army was attacked on Bouchier Street by two British soldiers clutching |
| 2:20.1 | half a brick. |
| 2:23.4 | But why? |
| 2:25.9 | This is a case less about the man who died or the men who did it, but how a war had shaped |
| 2:33.4 | and then broke them. |
| 2:36.3 | My name is Michael. I'm your tour guide, and this is Murder Mile. |
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