#311 - 'The Hooker with the Heart of Gold' (Jeanne Odette Western, 3 Peter Street, Soho, W1)

Murder Mile UK True Crime

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🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

On Monday the 12th of May 1975 at 2:40pm, two prostitutes on the first and second floors of 3 Peter Street were ‘entertaining’ their clients. With these small flats connected by a communal door, their punters rang the right bell for Jeanne, the left bell for ‘Sheila’ and were greeted on the stairwell by the correct prostitute’s maid. It was all very businesslike and efficient for these two professional woman.

But with a campaign of violence between rival gangs having torn apart this side of the city, as bad men did bad things for selfish reasons, two women would become the unwitting victims of ‘The Syndicate’.

Location: second floor, 2-3 Peter Street, Soho, London, UK, W1
Date: Monday the 12th of May 1975 at 2:40pm
Victims: Jeanne Odette Juliette Western & Pietrina Conzimu
Culprits: Joseph Frendo acquitted (Alfred Paul Tabone, John Everett) - never tried

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0:00.0	Do you belong here?
0:03.0	Next to me, about to jump into the sea on an army co-steering expedition.
0:08.0	What's your gut saying?
0:10.0	Walk away from the edge?
0:12.0	Or jump in and join a team that we buy your side for life?
0:19.0	Still listening? and join a team that we buy your side for life.
0:26.7	Still listening, you belong here.
0:28.5	Army, recruiting now.
0:29.9	Search army jobs.
0:37.1	How did a veteran prostitute shame one of Soho's most infamous gangs?
0:39.1	Find out on Murder Mile.
0:50.4	Today I'm standing outside of 3 Peter Street in Soho W1.
0:56.3	The same building where Eliza Higgs wept after a baby was beaten to death by its babysitter,
1:02.2	where Jacqueline Bivie was murdered by a disgruntled client, where the eviction of Elizabeth Vallat led her into the arms of a serial killer, and where one man poisoned hundreds in Soho,
1:08.9	but never learned his lesson. Coming soon to Murdema.
1:16.6	Oh yes. We visited this building many times before in its grim and disturbing history.
1:22.6	Currently, it's a designer boutique called Supreme, where kids, with legs like pipe cleaners,
1:29.5	faces devoid of smiles, and an inability to wipe their asses without vlogging about it.
1:35.3	Cure up outside for hours, in the hope of buying what looks to me, like a bland white vest for
1:40.7	80 quid, ripped jeans like a tramps used it to clean a barbed wire fence
1:44.7	for 300 quid, and some seriously ugly trainers that a wrapper has probably exclusively puked
1:50.8	on for a fee, only for the buyer to then instantly sell them to someone else. Who sells
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