#194 - The Gay Panic (Kensington, London, UK)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 8 December 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
1962, the basement flat at 17 Pembroke Court in West Kensington was owned by George Brinham; a respected trade unionist and chairman of the Labour Party, who was hailed as a Prime Minister in the making. And yet, there is no blue plaque to George Brinham. Some might say this was down to his political affiliations, others might imply it was owing to his love life, but maybe it’s simply down to a scandal which on Saturday 17th November 1962, led to his murder.
But why was George Brinham killed, and did a quirk of the law let his murderer go free?
- Date: Saturday 17th November 1962 at roughly 10:15pm
- Location: Flat 17, Pembroke Court, Edwarde Square, Kensington, London, England, W8
- Victims: 1 (George Ivor Brinham)
- Culprits: 1 (Laurence Thomas Somers)
- Method: assault and rape
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile. |
| 0:14.3 | Today, I'm standing in Edwired Square in Kensington W.8. |
| 0:21.8 | Four roads north of the killing of Churchill's super spy, Christina Scarbeck, |
| 0:27.7 | a short walk east of the former school of the victim of the beast, |
| 0:32.2 | Katerina Gagneva, |
| 0:34.8 | a few streets west of the basement, |
| 0:37.4 | where the entire McSwan family were dissolved in acid |
| 0:40.3 | And a few doors down |
| 0:43.0 | From the killer |
| 0:44.6 | Who couldn't say goodbye |
| 0:46.7 | Coming soon to murder mile |
| 0:50.7 | Hidden away off Kensington High Street Hidden away off Kensington High Street to murder mile. |
| 0:57.7 | Hidden away off Kensington High Street. |
| 1:01.5 | Edward Square is a posh little place. |
| 1:06.3 | A manicured private garden, surrounded by townhouses, |
| 1:14.6 | mostly owned by stiff, starchy, chin-stroking twits, who doodle and droned through galleries, about a piece's exquisite composition, not realizing they're staring at a bin. |
| 1:23.6 | Given its long history as the home of the well-to-do, many buildings of blue plaques, |
| 1:29.3 | organised by a committee of old grey men. |
| 1:34.3 | These plaques often celebrate a tenuous link to someone long dead and forgotten, |
| 1:40.3 | half of whom make the Bermude passers-by, think, and then state, no, never heard of them. |
| 1:53.0 | Of Edward Square lies Pembroke Court, a six-story art-deco apartment block built in the 1920s. |
| 2:01.6 | Back in 1962, the basement flat at 17 Pembroke Court was owned by George Brinham, |
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