#211 - The Old Lady Killer - Part One (Notting Hill, London, UK)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 25 May 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
This is Part One of Two of The Old Lady Killer.
On Monday 11th June 1973 at roughly noon, as part of her routine, she was standing on the first floor walkway awaiting a visit from a librarian. Form out of nowhere, she was dragged into her own home and viciously beaten by a man with no compunction about terrorising the most frail and vulnerable. The culprit was a local homeless man called David Harrison, and although the evidence would prove that he had unleashed this terrifying attack on old vulnerable woman, in court, his defence was that he wasn’t responsible. But why?
- Date: Monday 11th June 1973 at 12pm
- Location: 1st Floor, 12 Kingsnorth House, W10
- Victim: 1 (Alice Parker)
- Culprit: 1 (David John Harrison)
- Elderly ladies, murdered, strangled, drugs, robbery
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile. |
| 0:12.0 | Today, I'm standing outside of King's North House on Silchester Road, W-11. |
| 0:23.9 | Three streets south of the home of Scotch Maggie, |
| 0:27.8 | two streets west of Reg Christie's House of Horrors, |
| 0:31.3 | and within the looming shadow of the Grenfell Tower, |
| 0:35.4 | and the tragedies which befell it, |
| 0:40.3 | coming one day to Murdema. |
| 0:52.3 | To the side of the endless roar of the Westway flyover, King's North House is a force to re-block of flats built during the post-war housing boom. |
| 0:57.4 | Made cheaply of concrete, it was designed to last a decade. |
| 1:02.0 | But more than 60 years on, although Tatian worn, |
| 1:06.4 | these council-run flats still serve their purpose. |
| 1:13.5 | As a graffiti-covered dead end, it has a distinctly lawless feel, featuring a long line |
| 1:21.0 | of ominously locked garages, a no-ball game sign against which balls are kicked. |
| 1:32.8 | A fly-tipped version of Mount Everest, obscuring a no-dumping sign. |
| 1:40.9 | And the exposed wires of a CCTV camera, having been nicked by persons unknown. By and large, though, it's a typical council estate where families should |
| 1:50.2 | feel safe. But on Monday the 11th of June, 1973, in flat 12 of King's North House, |
| 1:59.2 | 80-year-old widow Alice Parker was attacked in her own home |
| 2:05.6 | by a man with no compunction to terrorise, the most frail and vulnerable. |
| 2:14.6 | My name is Michael. I am your tour guide, and this is Murder Mile. Episode 211, The Old Lady Killer, Part 1. Everybody needs a mentor. |
| 2:42.0 | Someone to teach us good from bad and to stare us from wrong to write. |
| 2:48.0 | Many of us only need a little shove from time to time, but whereas |
| 2:54.6 | others need a steady hand to guide them for the rest of their lives. And when they have it, |
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