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Murder Mile UK True Crime

#231 - The Good Samaritans (Soho, London, UK)

Murder Mile UK True Crime

Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast

History, Society & Culture, True-crime, London, English, Uk, British, Murder, True Crime, Killer, Crime, Documentary

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🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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#231 - The Good Samaritans. On Sunday 31st of July 1904, at roughly 12:30am, a fight broke out near the doorway of 23 Greek Street in Soho between two young men; Edward Devanney and Raphael Ciclino. Amidst a mele of fists and drunken yells, although its witnesses spoke of the shouts they’d heard and blows they’d seen, it seems strange that no-one saw the truth.

  • Date: Sunday 31st of July 1904, at roughly 12:30am
  • Location: 23 Greek Street, Soho, London, Great Britain, W1
  • Victim: 2 (Edward Devanney and Raphael Ciclino)
  • Culprit: 2 (Edward Devanney and Raphael Ciclino)


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0:00.0

Welcome to Murder Mile.

0:14.6

Today, I'm standing on Greek Street in Soho W-1.

0:21.6

A few doors south of William Crease's deadly dose of syphilis.

0:26.6

A few doors west of Susan Latine's Stockholm Syndrome.

0:31.6

A few doors up from Joe Ghanain's drug-fuelled murder spree.

0:36.6

And a few steps from the hobo tax collector.

0:40.9

Coming soon to murder mile.

0:46.8

A 23 Greek street currently stands a five-story office block with the shell of the

0:53.4

pleasant lady Zhang Bing's Chinese

0:55.6

street food store below, and the stench of avocados and falafel coming from the production

1:01.2

companies above.

1:04.5

And with a horrible pebble-dash façade, like a statue's been sick, a set of nasty white windows reminiscent of a 1980s comprehensive.

1:13.6

And its graffiti-covered wall reeking of wee-wee.

1:18.6

This building is so ugly.

1:21.6

It looks like an architect sat on a box of Macaano and thought,

1:26.6

Yeah, that'll do.

1:32.5

Back in 1904, a 23 Greek street stood a provisions shop called Deerdens, ran by the Dearden family.

1:42.2

And above, in a modest three-story terrace, was their home with space for several lodgers.

1:50.0

On Sunday the 31st of July, 1904, at roughly 12.30 a.m.

1:56.0

A fight broke out near the doorway of 20th degree street between two young men, Edward Devaney and Raphael Chikolino.

2:09.2

Amidst a melee of fists and drunken yells in a brawl which risked one man's execution and another man's death.

2:18.5

Although its many witnesses spoke of the shouts that they heard and the blows they had seen,

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