#308 - The Sadist and the Survivor (Merlyn Nuttall & Anthony Ferrira, Brixton, SW2)

Murder Mile UK True Crime

Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast

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🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Tuesday the 18th of February 1992 at 7:15pm. Merlyn Nuttall was kidnapped, raped, stabbed and set on fire by a drug-crazed assailant inside of a crack den at 9 Effra Road in Brixton. She could have died owing to her wounds and she should have been scarred for life owing to the attack, but as you’ll hear, from the precipice of death, it was the woman she was who ensured that the case was resolved, the culprit was convicted, and that the rest of her life was worth living.

· Location:top floor flat, 9 Effra Road, Brixton, London, UK, SW2
· Date: Tuesday the 18th of February 1992 at 7:15pm to 8am
· Victims 1: Merlyn Nuttall
· Culprits 1: Anthony Ferrira

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0:43.7	Kidnapped, raped, stabbed and set on fire.
0:47.7	But how did she survive?
0:50.0	Find out on Murder Mile.
1:01.1	Today I'm standing on Effra Road in Brixton, SW2.
1:04.2	One street north of the cult leader's bookshop.
1:06.5	Three streets west of a god called Jackie.
1:10.0	A few doors up from the first bombing by David Copeland.
1:15.6	And a short walk from the policeman who paid the ultimate price for porn, coming soon to murder mile.
1:18.6	In the heart of Brixton, past the Ritzie Cinema and up towards Tulsa,
1:24.6	sits a series of five mid-Victorian townhouses, with sash windows,
1:29.6	Doric columns and stone steps up to the ground floor.
1:34.3	Having survived the blitz bombings of the 1940s, slum clearances of the 50s and 60s misused
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