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Murder Mile UK True Crime

#251 - Like Father, Like Son (Hounslow, 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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🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

#251 - Like Father, Like Son.


Monday 11th of April 1994, 23-year-old Milton Wheeler entered Flat 80 of Benson Close in Hounslow and brutally murdered elderly couple Mr & Mrs Ambasna, and then, abducted and raped two teenage girls in the same flat, metres away from the dead bodies. His father was a career criminal and a convicted murderer - so was this a case of nature or nurture?


  • Date: Monday 11th of April 1994 between 7pm and 11pm
  • Location: Third floor, Flat 80, Benson Close, Hounslow, London, England, TW3
  • Victim: 1 (Madhavji & Raliat Ambasna, plus two unidentified girls)
  • Culprit: 1 (Milton Duncan Wheeler/Gainford)
  • Method: stabbing, strangulation and mutilation


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Welcome. Welcome to Murder Mile.

0:55.0

Today, I'm standing on Benson Close in Hounslow, T.W. 3 miles south of the last sighting of Alice Cross, two miles north of the Thames Topath Killer,

0:58.0

one mile south of the Chohan family murders,

1:03.0

and just a few streets from the wannabe gangsters last words.

1:08.0

Coming soon to murder mile. Benson Close is a cul-de-sac comprising of red brick

1:20.0

apartments and an 11-story high-rise block of flats which looms large over the street.

1:33.6

As council homes built with a, whack it up, make it cheap, and cram them in mentality.

1:40.9

The only sense of community is the nearby chip shop, which serves what every racist would dub the best of British cuisine.

1:47.0

Like shish kebabs, pizzas, combo chicken, curry sauce of an indeterminate origin,

1:51.0

mushy peas so gooey you could use it as cement,

1:55.0

and welks.

2:03.6

For scores of families, this is home. But for decades, many have complained that it was used as a dumping ground for a local psychiatric unit and Felton

2:11.6

Young Offenders Institute.

2:15.6

The same was true in 1993, when a young boy, said to have been born of pure evil,

2:22.6

came to Benson Close. And with everything, within walking distance of his flat,

2:30.1

Milton Wheeler planned his spree of torture, rape and murder.

2:37.2

But was he evil from birth, a product of a bad upbringing,

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