#304 - 'Mr Nobody' (Colin Findlay, The Beast of Banffshire)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
This is Ep304: 'Mr Nobody' (Colin James Findlay, The Beast of Banffshire).
This hostel marks the final attack of a horrific rapist, kidnapper, paedophile, alleged necrophile and an almost triple murderer. It’s a case which caused uproar in a community, destroyed several families, and three lives which would be changed forever, yet it was barely reported and it remains forgotten. The killer came from nowhere, which begs the question, what led him to do the evil things he did?
- Date: Wednesday the 28th of October 1992, late evening
- Location: German YMCA, Lancaster Hall Hotel, 35 Craven Terrace, London, UK, W2
- Victims: 3 (all unidentified across 1986 and 1992)
- Culprits: 1 (Colin James Findlay)
Murder Mile is one of the best UK / British true crime podcasts covering only 20 square miles of West London. Triple nominated at the True Crime Awards and nominated at the British Podcast Awards. It is researched, written and performed by Michael of Murder Mile UK True Crime Podcast with the main musical themes written and performed by Erik Stein and Jon Boux of Cult With No Name and additional music, as used under the Creative Commons License 4.0. A full listing of tracks used and a full transcript for each episode is listed here and a legal disclaimer.
This episode features a promo for Serial Napper.
For links click here
To subscribe via Patreon, click here
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/murdermile.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | How did a killer so horrific and cruel come out of nowhere? |
| 0:05.0 | Find out on Murder Mile. |
| 0:11.0 | This is Craven Tevis in Bayswater W2. |
| 0:17.0 | Two streets north of the Knight Porter, one street south of the Weisskill Killer, |
| 0:21.6 | and one street west of the missing hands of Ms. B, coming soon to Murder, |
| 0:26.6 | as it has since 1973, a 35 Craven Terrace stands the German YMCA, |
| 0:35.6 | an affordable and safe place to stay for Christians, Germans, non-Germans and atheists, as everyone is welcome. |
| 0:43.3 | In this area, you'd be lucky to buy a pioneer pint without needing to sell a kidney. |
| 0:49.3 | Yet here they offer help, events and a comfortable bed. |
| 0:53.3 | For those who aren't a fan of waking up in a bath of ice, groggy and unable to pee. |
| 1:00.0 | But as we've seen so many times on murder mile, every hotel and hostel has a dark story, and this is theirs. |
| 1:09.4 | This hostel marks the final attack of a horrific rapist, kidnapper, pedophile, |
| 1:13.6 | alleged necrophile, and an almost triple murderer. It's a case which caused uproar in |
| 1:20.1 | the community, destroyed several families, and three lives would be changed forever. Yet it was |
| 1:26.6 | barely reported and remains forgotten. |
| 1:31.1 | The killer came from nowhere, which begs the question what led him to do these evil things. |
| 1:39.6 | My name is Michael, I am your tour guide and this is Murder Mile. Episode 304, Mr. Nobody. |
| 1:59.1 | Autumn, 1992. |
| 2:01.6 | Britain was in recession. |
| 2:03.6 | Unemployment was at its highest level since the war. |
| 2:06.6 | The Queen's Ruby Jubilee was marred by what she called her Anna Sir Riples |
| 2:11.6 | and a spate of bombings by the IRA across the UK's town and cities |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in 9 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.