#226 - Overkill (Soho, London, England)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 28 September 2023
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#226 - Overkill. On Saturday 22nd of June 1968, a petty thief tried to steal a small amount of cash from Taj Mahal at 21 Romilly Street in Soho. It wasn’t a daring heist, but a petulant act which would have resulted in a fine or a few weeks in prison. And yet, allegedly using ‘acceptable force’ to restrain him, three men would be charged with murder.
- Date: Saturday 22nd of June 1968 at 5:30pm
- Location: Taj Mahal, 21 Romilly Street, Soho, London, England, W1
- Victim: 1 (Bashir Meah)
- Culprit: 1 (Ali Ahmed Mian, Ali Mokbul and Abdul Subhan) - acquitted
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile. |
| 0:14.4 | Today, I'm standing on Romilly Street in Soho W-1. |
| 0:21.6 | A few doors north of the Lumi-adiated for life by Russia's most incompetent spies. |
| 0:28.6 | Two doors east of Dennis Nilsen's favourite pub. |
| 0:32.6 | And within sight of the restaurant, where the daily special included a dose of death, |
| 0:39.3 | coming soon to Myrde-Mah. |
| 0:47.3 | Snuck between Old Compton Street and Shaspby Avenue, Romilly Street is a soulless void. |
| 1:02.7 | Being nothing more than a dirty back street, riddled with the ramshackle rear ends of some very questionable restaurants. |
| 1:09.8 | You won't see a shop, but you may see a gang of rats roughing up a one-legged pigeon, two crack addicts playing backgammon |
| 1:13.2 | using their displaced teeth, and a stained-speckled chef keeping his filthy hands warm |
| 1:19.5 | by ferreting about in his back garden and then fond link his trouser vegetables. |
| 1:29.3 | But oddly, it was and still is, a place where people come to find good food. |
| 1:39.3 | A 21 Romilly Street currently stands Gultier, |
| 1:43.3 | a high-brow vegan restaurant run by award-winning |
| 1:46.8 | chef Alexis Gaultier. |
| 1:50.3 | And back in the 1960s, it was also an Indian restaurant called Taj Mahal. |
| 1:59.0 | As an Indian eatery catering to bland British tastes, the staff at the Taj Mahal were |
| 2:05.2 | well used to a little spice in their day. |
| 2:09.4 | Whether being winged at, by the half-wittery of Hasbeens who start of his sentence with |
| 2:14.3 | the words, I'm not a racist, but, or a spew of yobbos, scoffing napalibed |
| 2:21.6 | Vindaloo to impress their pals, as on a regular basis the staff are threatened, attacked, |
| 2:28.2 | spat at, abused, and robbed. On Saturday the 22nd of June, 1968, a petty thief tried to steal a small amount of cash from |
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