#187 - The Bearded Man - Part One (Paddington, London, UK)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 29 September 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
This is Part One of Two of The Bearded Man.
12:45am on Saturday 14th January 1956, at the junction of Hertford Street and Park Lane in Mayfair, 34-year-old sex-worker Robina Bolton known as Ruby was last seen alive. The next morning she was found murdered in Flat 7 at 32 Westbourne Terrace, a flat she shared with her husband Ernest.
Ernest would claim he last saw Ruby alive as she entered a taxi with an unidentified man. Seven hours later, he would stumble across the body of his wife having been brutally murdered in her bed.
As her pimp who was flat broke, the only other person with a key to the flat and a laughable alibi that she was due to meet a man no-one had seen who he knew only as ‘the bearded man’, as the Police’s chief suspect, Ernest was questioned on suspicion of her murder. But was this the truth, or a lie?
- Date: Saturday 14th January 1956 at 12:45am (last seen alive)
- Location: Flat 7, 32 Westbourne Terrace, Paddington, London, UK, W2
- Victim: 1 (Robina Bolton/Pattinson, known as Ruby)
- Culprits: 1 (Leonard Vincent Atter? Ernest Bolton?)
- Keywords: prostitution, coercion, murder
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile. |
| 0:10.0 | Today, I'm standing on Westbourne Terrace in Paddington, W2. |
| 0:20.0 | One street north of the stabbing of P.C. Jack Avery. |
| 0:23.6 | Three streets west of Alice Williams' death. |
| 0:27.6 | Two streets east of the attack on Airman Stanley Thurman. |
| 0:31.6 | And one street south of the curse of the castrated flasher, coming soon to murder mile. |
| 0:40.3 | Since construction began on the station in 1852, prostitution has always been part of Paddington's seedy aside. |
| 0:52.3 | There's not a single flat which hasn't been used by sex |
| 0:55.9 | workers to service their clients. Only now, many brothels are rented out by Airbnb, with |
| 1:03.6 | their transactions taking place via an app. So as easily as you may order a McMuffin at Mucky-Doo's. |
| 1:11.6 | Someone has taken Blowy from a drop-down box, |
| 1:16.6 | swiped right for a hand shandy, |
| 1:19.6 | clicked a yes for dogging, |
| 1:21.6 | added a smiley face for S&M, where the safe word is jevelled, |
| 1:25.6 | and God help anyone who mistakes the pint emoji for the poo. |
| 1:34.7 | Back in the 1950s, flat 7 at 32 Westbourne Terrace was a simple small, fourth-floor lodging |
| 1:42.7 | comprising of a single room, |
| 1:45.2 | with a bed, a sink, a sofa, and a small kitchenette. |
| 1:50.6 | Rented out a Ruby, a 35-year-old prostitute, |
| 1:54.6 | an earnest, a husband. |
| 1:57.4 | This is where she'd have sex with several men each night for cash. |
| 2:03.6 | Having driven her to and from the flat to a known picker point, |
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