#222 - The Five Shilling Striptease (Soho, London)

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🗓️ 31 August 2023

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#222 - The Five Shilling Striptease. On Thursday 23rd of November 1967 at just shy of midnight, Eric Simmons and David Williams entered GiGi’s, a low rent striptease at 62 Frith Street in Soho. They paid their money, they had a drink, they watched the show, and then seven words were spat. A few minutes later, one of them would be dead.

Date: Thursday 23rd of November 1967 at roughly midnight
Location: GiGi's Striptease, 62 Frith Street, Soho, W1
Victim: 1 (Eric Thomas Simmons)
Culprit: 1 (Alfred Joseph Saliba)

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0:00.0	Welcome to Murder Mile.
0:12.0	Today, I'm standing on Frith Street in Soho W1.
0:27.6	A few doors down from the cafe where the terror of Malta didn't pay for a cup of tea.
0:32.9	A few doors up from the blackout rippers erectile dysfunction.
0:38.5	A few doors opposite of the infamously boring death of William Hazlott,
0:44.1	and several doors up from the so-called Battle of Frith Street,
0:50.4	where two sad little street tufts had their petty spat ended by a lady greengrocer who whacked these prized dickheads over the bonts,
0:56.7	with either a vase, a lad ladle or some weighing scales. Not coming soon to murder mile because it's a load of old crap.
1:08.6	At 62 Firth Street currently stands Circa, a small ground floor club in a four-storey
1:16.4	Victorian terrace.
1:18.1	Described as Soho's leading gay bar, it boasts a long line of red-cheeked men sucking hard
1:26.5	on thick pink straws.
1:28.3	A chorus of excitable bums, squeaking eagerly on waxed leather chairs.
1:34.3	A resident DJ, who many reviews state gets a tad tetchy should anyone dare to make a request,
1:43.3	and what their website hails as the hottest boys around,
1:48.0	although probably that's down to the faulty aircon.
1:56.0	In the late 1960s, at 62 Fr Fourth Street stood Gigi's,
2:01.6	a classic Soho strip club where drunk men paid over the odds to sit in the dark
2:08.6	and leer at a bored-looking lady on dressing, in the hope of seeing a nipple.
2:15.6	On Thursday, the 23rd of November, 1967, just shy of midnight, Eric Simmons and David Williams entered Gigi's.
2:27.3	They paid their money, they had a drink, they watched the show, and then seven words were spat.
2:36.3	Three strangers met that night.
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