#219 - Shattered Memory (The Trial of Gunther Podola, UK) - Part Two

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🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

This is Part Two 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
Location: Hallway, 105 Onslow Square, Kensington, SW7
Victim: 1 (Detective Sergeant Raymond William Purdy)
Culprit: 1 (Gunther Fritz Edwin Podola)
Method: police brutality and corruption

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0:00.0	Welcome to...
0:10.0	To...
0:12.0	As 30-year-old Gunter Padole sat in the dock of the old Bailey,
0:21.6	the ghost of a cut still lingering above his left eye.
0:26.6	He was not the only man on trial in the murder of Detective Sergeant Raymond Purdy.
0:32.6	As so was the testimony of his partner, D.S. John Sanford, and the recollections of the eight
0:40.3	CID officers who stormed room 15, and it is said, caused the culprit's amnesia, whether
0:47.3	by accident or brutality. Justice Davies forewarn the jury,
0:57.5	you will have to ask yourselves,
0:59.6	do you believe Detective Sergeant John Sanford's evidence
1:02.4	and regard him as honest, accurate and reliable?
1:08.1	As with no independent witnesses
1:10.2	to either the culprit's assault or the officer's murder,
1:13.6	testimony was based on an amnesiac with a death sentence hanging over his head,
1:20.6	and eight celebrated CID officers, keen to protect their careers, their colleagues, their reputations, and the memory of an
1:30.3	officer shot down in the line of duty. But was Gunther's amnesia, an excuse, an accident or police brutality.
1:47.0	First at the 16th of July, 1959, on the third floor of the Claremont House Hotel at 95 Queensgate,
2:06.6	all eight CID officers would clarify.
2:10.6	At 3.45pm, we took a position facing the door of room 15.
2:24.9	A small room, barely big enough for one man, comprising a bed, a chair, a wardrobe,
2:28.8	and no exits except for that door.
2:41.0	Inside, as he washed, unaware that he was cornered, Gunter was believed to be armed and deadly. With the hotel's residents moved somewhere safe, this incident can only be based on the testimony of those eight CID officers standing outside of room 15.
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