#250 - The Socialite's Premonition (Knightsbridge, London)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
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🗓️ 18 April 2024
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#250 - The Socialite's Premonition.
On Tuesday 31st May 1932, in a place she had dubbed ‘The Love Hut’, although the evidence stated that (in a drunk and emotional state) Elvira shot her lover to death, the circumstances of the murder was so dubious - that the truth was easily whitewashed by an adoring press who were so besotted by this beautiful but vapid rich kid - that they made her the only victim, and him the absolute culprit.
- Date: Tuesday 31st May 1932 at roughly 4:30am
- Location: first floor flat at 21 William(s) Mews, Knightsbridge, London, England, SW1
- Victim: 1 (Thomas William Scott Stephen, known as Michael)
- Culprit: 1 (Elvira Enid Barney, nee Mullen, alias Dolores Ashley)
- Method of death: shooting
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile. |
| 0:14.3 | Today, I'm standing on William Mews in Knightsbridge, SW1. |
| 0:20.3 | Two roads west of the goat tavernvern where William McSwan was treated |
| 0:24.5 | to a farewell drink, two streets west of the High Park bombing, and a short walk south of the |
| 0:31.6 | fake SAS soldier and his cowardly initiation, Coming soon to Murder Mile. |
| 0:41.3 | Hidden off the rather posh Lounge Square. |
| 0:44.3 | William Mews was once a cul-de-sac, |
| 0:47.3 | comprising of stables, where society's elite bragged that they kept their horses. |
| 0:52.3 | Only to have a flunky, shovel up the shit, as that |
| 0:56.5 | is what the wealthy do. |
| 0:58.6 | They boast about their success, only to have the little people do all the work. |
| 1:05.7 | By the 1930s, William Mews had become a line of carriages occupied by cab drivers whose families lived in the flats above. |
| 1:13.6 | One exception was at number 21, where 27-year-old socialite Elvira Barney lived, boozed, debauched, |
| 1:23.6 | and had her bad behaviour rewarded by society, and her crimes excused by the law. |
| 1:30.3 | On Tuesday the 31st of May 1932, in a place she had dubbed the Love Hut, although the evidence stated that in a drunken emotional state, Elvira had shot her lover's |
| 1:45.0 | death, that circumstances of the murder was so dubious, that the truth was easily whitewashed |
| 1:53.0 | by an adoring press who was so besotted by this beautiful but rapid rich kid that they |
| 1:59.9 | made her the only victim |
| 2:01.2 | and him the absolute culprit |
| 2:03.9 | my name is Michael |
| 2:08.0 | I'm your tour guide |
| 2:09.6 | and this is murder mile |
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