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Murder Mile UK True Crime

#220 - Shattered Memory (The Trial of Gunther Podola, UK) - Part Three

Murder Mile UK True Crime

Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast

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🗓️ 27 July 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

This is Part Three 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: Thursday 16th of July at roughly 3:45pm
  • Location: Room 15, Third Floor, 95 Queens Gate, Kensington, SW7
  • Victim: 1 (Detective Sergeant Raymond William Purdy)
  • Culprit: 1 (Gunther Fritz Edwin Podola)
  • Method: shooting and police brutality


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0:00.0

Welcome to...

0:02.0

...as...

0:03.0

...as Guntar Badol stood in the dock of the old Bailey, diagnosed with amnesia,

0:24.3

he couldn't give any evidence to defend himself over the crime, which would warrant his sentence of death.

0:32.3

So instead, he read this pre-prepared statement.

0:41.1

Okay. He read this pre-prepared statement. Your Honor, members of the jury, I stand before you accused of the murder of a man.

0:49.0

I cannot put forward any defence.

0:52.7

The reason is that I have lost my memory of all these events. I cannot

0:58.3

recall the crime. I do not know if I even did it, whether it was an accident or an act of self-defense.

1:05.3

For these reasons, I am unable to admit or deny the charge against me.

1:11.6

Thank you, my lord.

1:14.6

With the evidence resting, and whether the jury believed that Gunter had willingly murdered Detective Sergeant Raymond Purdy,

1:22.6

a crime still punishable by death, as there were no independent sightings of the shooting,

1:30.3

and Gunter had no memory.

1:33.3

The only witness was Deer Sanford, purred his partner.

1:43.3

The case of Gunter Badola was unique, as usually the accused would plead insanity.

1:50.0

But here, pleading amnesia, the jury had an impossible task.

1:57.0

To decide who was telling the truth, the killer or the copper.

2:09.6

For the prosecution, it wasn't difficult to prove that Gunter was a liar.

2:21.3

Being a criminal with three aliases, a history of theft, fraud and blackmail,

2:27.3

a cowardly man who had abandoned his girlfriend and child in a refugee camp in war-torn Berlin and a fabricator of such

2:37.1

magnitude that he had even read out that statement that you've just heard in a North American

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