#218 - Shattered Memory (The Trial of Gunther Podola, UK) - Part One
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 13 July 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
This is Part One of Three of Shattered Memory.
On Monday 13th of July at roughly 3:45pm, in the hallway of 105 Onslow Square in Kensington, SW7, 30-year-old German national Gunther Podola shot Detective Sergeant Raymond Purdy dead. Traced to a nearby hotel at 95 Queen’s Gate, CID detectives and colleagues of the dead officer charged into Gunther’s room… thirty minutes later, he was escorted out, suffering bruises, weakness and amnesia. With one officer dead and the culprit with no memory of what he was being charged with, the whole crux of the trial would be ‘who is telling the truth’, the vengeful officers or the killer with no memory.
- Date: Monday 13th of July at roughly 3:45pm (scene of the shooting)
- Location: The Hallway, 105 Onslow square, Kensington, SW7
- Victim: 1 (Det Sgt Raymond William Purdy)
- Culprit: 1 (Gunther Fritz Edwin Podola)
- Method: police brutality, corruption and assault / amnesia
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to... |
| 0:02.0 | Um... |
| 0:04.0 | ...were... |
| 0:08.0 | ...to... |
| 0:09.0 | ...to... |
| 0:10.0 | ...uh... As this pale and selenide German sat in court one of the old Bailey, even as a death sentence, was dangled over his low, hung head. |
| 0:36.4 | He couldn't give a word of testimony as an alibi. |
| 0:39.7 | He couldn't provide an ounce of evidence in his defence. |
| 0:43.5 | Nor could he rip apart any witnesses as to their own recollection. |
| 0:51.7 | Diagnosed with amnesia, |
| 0:54.0 | Gunter Podola had no memory memory of the policeman he had murdered. |
| 0:59.0 | Tried before Justice Edmund Davies. |
| 1:04.0 | Of the 11 days, spent giving evidence, nine were to decide if Gunter was fit to stand trial or give testimony. |
| 1:16.0 | Beginning on the 8th of September, 1959, |
| 1:19.5 | Gunther Padole, you are charged that you did murder, Detective Sergeant Raymond William Purdy. |
| 1:28.3 | The defence being that, owing to the brutality of those same officers |
| 1:33.3 | whose colleague Gunter had shot dead, |
| 1:36.3 | he had no memory of the murder, his assault, his arrest, or his hospitalisation. |
| 1:45.0 | But also, the bulk of his life he had lived, his girlfriend, his child or his upbringing, as everything was blank. |
| 1:58.0 | But with the killing of an officer being one of the few crimes still punishable by death, |
| 2:03.6 | in an era when executions were being abolished, |
| 2:06.6 | with the prosecution seeing as amnesia as nothing more than a convenient charade, |
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