#21 - Canal Killers - Sebastiano Magnanini (King's Cross, Islington, N1)

Murder Mile UK True Crime

Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast

True Crime, English, Nglish, E, Uk, Crime, London, Society & Culture, Murder, Killer, True-crime, History, Personal Journals, British

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On the evening of Tuesday 22nd September 2015, Italian tour-guide and English teacher Sebastiano Magnanini was last seen alive walking by King’s Cross Station. Two days later, his decomposing body was found dead in the Regent’s Canal, having been tied to a shopping trolley. But what happened?

Date: Tuesday 22nd September 2015
Location: Regent's Canal / Islington Tunnel (and Wharfdale Road), King's Cross, Islington, N1)
Victims: 1 (Sebastiano Magnanini)
Culprit: Michael Walsh, Daniel Hastie & Paul Williams *

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0:00.0	Welcome to Murder Mile.
0:12.4	A true crime podcast and audio-guided walk, featuring many of London's untold, unsolved, and long-forgotten murders, all set within one square mile of
0:24.5	the West End.
0:27.3	Today's episode is about Sebastiano Magnanini, a lovable, fun-loving and colourful character
0:35.6	who died in mysterious circumstances, but whose life and death
0:41.1	left police scratching their heads.
0:46.0	Murdomal contains grisly descriptions, which may offend, as well as realistic sounds,
0:52.2	so that, no matter where you listen to this podcast, you'll feel like you're actually there.
1:00.3	My name is Michael. I am your tour guide, and this is Murder Mile.
1:08.3	Episode 21, Sebastiano Manianini.
1:12.6	Today, I'm on my canal boat.
1:22.6	A lovely red and green, 50-foot steel vessel, which is my office by day, my bed by night,
1:31.3	and my cosy little home since I flicked the V's to corporate slavery and embraced creative freedom.
1:39.3	Right now, I'm chugging along at a brisk three miles an hour.
1:45.0	The sun dappling the water, the soothing waves tickling the towpath.
1:51.0	As perched at the stern is me, with a ship's tiller in one hand, a cup of tea in the other,
1:58.0	and the wind slightly ruffling my few remaining hair follicles.
2:02.7	As a soft growl of the engine merrily jiggles my gut, butt, and man boobs.
2:10.1	Ah, life is good. And as I chug along the Regents Canal at the back of King's Cross Station, I pass a line of moored up boats, with log fires burning, a stew on the stove, and reclining on his plastic pleasure craft, amusingly adorned with pirate flags, is a beardy man in a high-vis vest vest smoking a giant spliff. I call to him.
2:37.0	Hello, my boaty brethren! Ah, get forked! Ah yes, this is the life.
2:49.0	Wanka!
2:56.6	Okay, there may be the odd smattering of crime,
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