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Murder Mile UK True Crime

#191 - Lyn, Jan & Him (West Brompton, London, English)

Murder Mile UK True Crime

Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast

History, Society & Culture, True-crime, London, English, Uk, British, Murder, True Crime, Killer, Crime, Documentary

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🗓️ 17 November 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Back in 1962, Flat D on the ground floor of 60 Redcliffe Square was a one-roomed lodging which was once the home and workplace of Lyn Bain & Jan Blake - two ladies with too many secrets. Given the era, they disguised their illegal lesbian relationship as merely a tempestuous friendship, but it would be a single incident over a few drinks, a card game and a bit of telly, which would end it all.


The evidence states that Thursday 14th September 1962 was a seemingly quiet night in Lyn & Jan. And yet, something caused them to argue and fight, for a knife to cut flesh and for a cover-up to erase what happened that night. With a secret so big, wrong, dark or strange, it left one woman in the prison, the other in the morgue and both taking their unspoken motive to the grave. But what was this secret? 

  • Date: Friday 14th September 1962 at roughly 8am (stabbing)
  • Location: Flat D, 60 Redcliffe Square, West Brompton, London, England, SW10
  • Victims: 1 (Jeanette Doreen McVitie, known as Jan)
  • Culprits: 1 (Marilyn Anne Bain, known as Lyn)
  • Keywords: love triangle, jealousy, beating,


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0:00.0

Welcome to Murder Mile.

0:15.4

Today, I'm standing in Redcliffe Square in Putney, S.W. 10.

0:22.4

Two stops north of Fergie's crazed dresser.

0:26.0

Three stops north-east of the last attack by the sadistic little drummer boy.

0:31.3

One street east of the pub of choice for several of Britain's most infamous serial killers.

0:37.3

And one street north of the callous

0:40.3

killer who discreetly hid his victim's body by dumping it on his own doorstep, coming soon

0:49.3

to murder mile. Designed to confuse any visitors, almost every street in this part of West Brompton is filled with long lines of identical white five-story Victorian terraces, with stepped entrances encircled by Doric columns. Being so ominously vague and silent,

1:13.5

it's as if this street is trying to hide all of its secrets.

1:18.2

Only being the kind of pretentious Tospot Haven,

1:22.2

where Fenella and Hugo asked his spermante

1:24.5

raise their ruddy-faced bully magnets,

1:29.7

each named after a philosopher, a composer, a chemical element, a place in Italy, a type of parmesan, a lost sexual disease,

1:36.5

and an obscure quote to prove that they can read.

1:40.8

The deepest secrets any of these residents are likely to hide

1:45.0

would be when they last brought a loaf of white sliced bread

1:49.0

or having spoken to a real-life northerner

1:52.0

without getting a tetanus shot.

1:58.0

On the right-hand side of the ground floor of 60 Redcliffe Square stands flat D, a one-roomed

2:06.1

lodging which was once the home and workplace of Lynn Bain and Jan Blake, two ladies

2:12.6

with too many secrets.

2:16.6

Given the era, they disguised their illegal lesbian relationship as merely a tempestuous friendship,

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