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Murder Mile UK True Crime

#303 - Dirty Money (Li Hua Cao & Robert Ekaireb, Hampstead, NW3)

Murder Mile UK True Crime

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🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Back in 2006, Flat 9 of the Pavilion Court on the Mount Vernon Estate was the plush matrimonial home of Mr & Mrs Ekaireb. For Li Hua & Robert, their whirlwind romance meant they married just seven months after they had met and with a baby on the way, it should have been the perfect start


But having wedded a jealous and controlling monster, Li became a hostage in her own life, she lived in fear, she lost everything, and just two and a half weeks after her wedding, he brutally murdered her. This is a story about money, and how it never leads to happiness.

  • Date: Monday 23rd October 2006
  • Location: Flat 9, Pavilion Court, Mount Vernon Estate, Hampstead, London, UK, NW3
  • Victim: 1 (Li Hua Cao also known as Li or Lisa Ekaireb)
  • Culprit: 1 (Robert David Ekaireb)


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0:00.0

How do you prove a murder without a body? Find out on Murder Mile.

0:11.0

This is Frognell Rise in Hampstead NW3.

0:16.0

Four streets west of the murderous mother-in-law, Stilu Christofi,

0:20.0

two streets south of the home of pathologists

0:22.6

of Bernard Spilsbury, and one street north of the bungling burglar, who broke the bank, and then broke his neck,

0:29.6

coming soon to Murder Mile. Of Hampstead Heath, in one of the poshous parts of London sits the Mount Vernon estate,

0:40.3

comprising of three mansion blocks of opulent apartments, with many flats costing upwards of two million pounds.

0:48.3

Owned by mostly corporations, is the kind of place a shady Russian oligarch might live believing he's an English gentleman.

0:57.0

By calling his Egyptian butler Jeeves, by drinking tea with his pinky finger raised high,

1:03.0

by saying, one does, instead of I, by eating posh chip buddies and having filthy dreams about the queen.

1:12.3

With high gates, security guards and CCTV, here money can buy you privacy but not always

1:18.2

safety.

1:22.1

Back in 2006, flat nine of the pavilion court on the Mount Vernon estate was the plush matrimonial home of Mr and Mrs. Echerep.

1:32.3

For Lee Waer and Robert, their whirlwind romance meant they married just seven months after they had met,

1:38.3

and with a baby on the way, it should have been the perfect start.

1:42.3

But having married a jealous and controlling monster, Lay became a hostage in her own home.

1:48.8

She lived in abject fear.

1:50.8

And just two and a half weeks after her own wedding, she lost everything, including her life.

1:59.1

My name is Michael. I'm your tour guide and this is Murder Mile.

2:03.6

Episode 303, Dirty Money

2:07.6

To tell Lay's story, we need to travel 5,000 miles east to Delian.

2:23.3

A Chinese coastal city, famed as one of the busiest shipping ports in East Asia.

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