#190 - The Stockholm Syndrome of Susan Lattaney (Soho, London, UK)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 10 November 2022
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#190 - The Stockholm Syndrome of Susan Lattaney. June 1863. In the basement of 11 Old Compton Street in Soho, 21-year-old Susan Lattaney lived and worked as a prostitute. Having met and fell in love with glass decorator Henry Broughton - keen to fullfil her dreams of a great life together - she agreed to keep selling her body for sex, with Henry as her pimp. It was a small sacrifice she would make for herself and the man she loved...
...but in truth, she would be trapped by his lies, his cruelty and she would become a prisoner inside her own life.
- Date: Tuesday 20th June 1863
- Location: Basement, 11 Old Compton Street, London, England, W1 (Susan's home)
- Victims: 1 (Susan Lattaney)
- Culprits: 1 (Henry Broughton)
- Keywords: hostage, mental torture, abuse, captive
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile. |
| 0:14.0 | Today, I'm standing on Old Compton Street in Soho, W1. |
| 0:21.5 | Five doors north of the Drockfield spree of Joe Gnain. |
| 0:26.1 | Twelve doors east of the contract hit on Alfredo Zampelle. |
| 0:31.2 | Three doors up from the radioactive trail at Café Bohem. |
| 0:35.7 | And a few doors down, froma Creece's Nightmare |
| 0:40.3 | Eurne Moon, coming soon to Murder Mile. |
| 0:49.3 | Identical to every other building on this narrow hive of seedy smudsh and hitherto havens is 11 Old Compton Street, |
| 0:57.2 | a classic Victorian four-story flat-fronted terrace, with a shop below and flats above, |
| 1:07.2 | with old Soho dead and gentrified into a sickening pseudo-shortage, |
| 1:13.7 | where history has been usurped by faux shops for the dim-witted, |
| 1:19.0 | who'll apple pay for anything that's fashionable for a hot minute. |
| 1:24.4 | Eleven Old Compton Street is now home to chai time. |
| 1:28.3 | A bubble tea shop, where fans of cold milky tea, can be fleeced into slurping what resembles, |
| 1:37.3 | a pint of rainbow-coloured porridge, sperm and frogsbourne. |
| 1:43.3 | Ooh, yummy. |
| 1:46.0 | Back in the 1860s, on the ground floor of number 11 was a butcher's shop with an abattoirotoir out back. |
| 1:57.0 | And above the lodgings of the impoverished, some of whom was sex workers. |
| 2:03.6 | With the basement split into two by a thin wall, and a slit window at foot level where rats ran among bins of rancid meat. |
| 2:14.6 | This tiny room was the home and workplace of 21-year-old prostitute, |
| 2:21.3 | Susan Lateney. It wasn't much, but being trapped by the incessant cruelty of her |
| 2:29.3 | pimp and supposed husband to be Henry Broughton. |
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