#309 - Every Child's Nightmare (Jacob & Louise Lennon / Jake Drummond, Roehampton, SW15)

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🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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In the early hours of Tuesday 27th of August 2019, in an unnamed flat on Woking Close, 15-month old Jacob Lennon was lying in his cot and dreaming innocent dreams. Like every child, he was small, fragile and needed protection from life’s dangers. But whereas many children are shielded by the very worst of predators like drunks, junkies and paedophiles, there is one person who is every child’s nightmare.

Location: unnamed flat, Woking Close, Roehampton, London, UK, SW15
Date: Tuesday 27th of August 2019 after 1am
Victims 1: Jacob Lennon
Culprits 1: Louise Lennon & Jake Drummond

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0:00.0	How could a child die weeks before his own death?
0:04.0	Find out on Murder Mile.
0:07.0	Today I'm standing on Woking Close in Roehampton, S.W.15, three streets south of the cuckooed flat of William Algar, four streets east of the drowned body of Dorothy Kaslovsky,
0:23.6	and three streets west of the teacher who loved detention a little too much, coming soon to Murder Mile.
0:34.6	Woking Close is a small U-shaped road surrounded by 16 identical brown brick council blocks for some of the area's neediest residents.
0:43.3	With most of its spare space taken up by transit vans, hot hatches and stolen line bikes,
0:50.3	its children are often stuck playing on a microscopic patch of brown grass strewn with weeds, dog shit and car parts.
0:58.0	Even though just over the wall at Roampton Golf Course lies 100 acres of lush greenery
1:05.0	reserved for a handful of old, middle-class tax-dodging codgers in garish sweaters.
1:16.9	It could, of course, be turned into a playground, but it won't be, as I'm guessing that the town's councillor is a regular golfer. Of course, playtime is vital for dealing with stress,
1:24.4	not just for children, but for their parents and guardians, as it eases tensions,
1:29.3	which arise during the day and soothes them both with a peaceful sleep at night, but not
1:34.9	for everyone.
1:38.1	In the early hours of Tuesday the 27th of August 2019, in an unnamed flat on woking Close, 15-month-old Jacob Lennon was
1:47.0	lying in his cot and dreaming innocent dreams.
1:52.0	Like every child, he was small, fragile and needed protection from life's dangers.
1:58.0	But whereas many children are shielded by the very worst of predators, like drunks, junkies and paedophiles, there is one person who is every child's nightmare. My name is Michael. I'm your tour guide and this is Murder Mile. Episode 309.
2:19.5	Every child's nightmare.
2:33.0	This story begins and ends with every parent's greatest fear, a sick and injured child.
2:39.7	The night of Tuesday, the 27th of August 2019, was uncomfortably hot, as a mini heat wave
2:46.1	had made the night sticky. In the bedroom he shared with his four-year-old brother, 15-month-old Jacob lay in his cot,
2:55.7	restless as he was recovering from a fever.
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