#320 - The 'Paedo' Killer (Rhian Beresford, Acton, W3)

Murder Mile UK True Crime

Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast

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🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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EPISODE THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY: Sunday 22nd March 2020, one day before the first Covid lockdown, 29-year-old mother-of-one Rhian Beresford left her flat terrified that her two-year-old daughter was being abused by a paedophile ring. On Salisbury Street, certain that she had found one of the gang, she ran him over in her car and stabbed another. But what let to this tragic incident, and how did it all go so badly wrong?

Location: Salisbury Street, Acton, London, W3, UK
Date: Sunday 22nd March 2020 at 12:50pm (time police called)
Victims: Stefan Melnyk
Culprits: Rhian Amie Beresford

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1:07.8	pedophile find out on murder mile.
1:19.6	Today I'm standing on Salisbury Street in Atten W3,
1:24.6	four streets east of the home of the predatory paedophile known as the Beast, two streets west of the tragic killing of Dylan Freeman by his mum, and
1:29.3	a short walk north of the last hiccup by the hungry Satanist, coming soon to murder my.
1:38.3	Just off Acton's High Street, where pound shops spawn like bacteria are in a petri dish, where
1:43.3	vape shops are as common as the cold,
1:45.5	and where the swimming baths probably host the competition for the best of Varuka.
1:49.6	At the back of the Acton Centre sits Salisbury Street.
1:53.2	A one-way thoroughfare comprising of a few flats, a bus stop, some sapling trees, two wide paths,
2:00.2	and on the corner of Acton Lane eight tubular
2:02.7	bike racks. It looks innocent enough, like the kind of place a drunk would be cautioned
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