#226 - Overkill (Soho, London, England)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 28 September 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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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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| 0:50.0 | Welcome to Murder My. |
| 0:57.0 | Today, I'm standing on Romaly Street in Soho, W1. |
| 1:03.0 | A few doors north of the Louis radiated for life by Russia's most incompetent spies. |
| 1:11.0 | Two doors east of Dennis Nielsen's favourite pub. |
| 1:15.0 | And within sight of the restaurant where the daily special included a dose of death. |
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| 1:27.0 | Snuck between Old Compton Street and Shastby Avenue. |
| 1:33.0 | Romaly Street is a soulless void. |
| 1:37.0 | Being nothing more than a dirty backstreet riddled with a ramshackle rear rents of some very questionable restaurants. |
| 1:46.0 | You won't see a shop, but you may see a gang of rats roughing up a one-legged pigeon. |
| 1:53.0 | Two crack addicts playing bat-gammon using their displace teeth. |
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