#340 - The Real 'H' (Line of Duty, Operation Countryman)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
BBC TV drama series ‘Line of Duty’, a police procedural follows the exploits of AC12 (Anti-Corruption Unit 12), based on the Metropolitan Police’s A10, established in 1971 to root out corruption within the force. In the upcoming seventh series they will unravel the conundrum of who is ‘H’, the Police’s highest ranking corrupt officer, who many believe was fictional…
…but he wasn’t, he was real. This is the story of Operation Countrymen, the investigation to root out corrupt coppers' in the Police force, the robberies which led to its downfall, the lives which were lost, the 'good officers' who were worse than criminals and the man who was at the very top of the corruption - 'H'.
The dates and places of the robberies:
- Location #1: Daily Express, 120-129 Fleet Street, London, EC4
- Date #1: Monday 3rd of May 1976
- Location #2: Williams & Glyn's Bank, 67 Lombard Street, London, EC3
- Date #2: Tuesday 27th Sept 1977
- Location #3: Daily Mirror, 33 Holborn Circus, London, EC1
- Date #3: Wednesday 31st May 1978
- Victims: Antonio Castro
- Culprit: Commander Hugh Moore, DCI Philip Cuthbert, and the many unnamed criminals they held evade justice
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| 0:00.0 | Your true crime story will start in just a moment. |
| 0:03.0 | But before it does, have you got your ticket for the Always True Crime Live Show? |
| 0:08.0 | Stuart from British Murders, Mike from Murder Mile, and Paul, the true crime enthusiast, |
| 0:14.0 | are teaming up for the ultimate true crime takeover at Crossed Wires Festival. |
| 0:19.0 | They'll be diving into the details of some gripping cases in a live show that you won't want to miss. |
| 0:24.4 | Search Crossed Wires Festival now and see all three shows with just one ticket. |
| 0:30.8 | Who was the most corrupt officer in the Met and the City of London Police? |
| 0:35.6 | Find out on Murder Mile. |
| 0:41.3 | Yeah. and the City of London Police. Find out on Murder Mile. Today, I'm standing outside of Great Ormond Street Hospital in Bloomsbury, WC1. |
| 0:49.3 | Three streets north of Kaisu Kim, the sadistic Korean landlord who tortured his tenants. |
| 0:55.0 | Two streets north-east of the killing of Jean Stafford. |
| 0:58.0 | The same building where the Camden Ripper was arrested |
| 1:01.0 | and the street where a blotto Russian spy blabbed a little bit too much about his secret. |
| 1:08.0 | Coming soon to murder while. |
| 1:13.4 | If you hate the sound of kids crying, because the stupid, snod-covered little git has got |
| 1:18.1 | something stuck up his nose, his ear, his eye, his arsehole, or any available orifice |
| 1:23.4 | not currently being blocked by a toy, a jelly tot or a car key, then avoid Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital. |
| 1:31.3 | Yes, they do amazing work for sick children, |
| 1:34.3 | but where there's misery and grief, there's always someone who's there to exploit it. |
| 1:40.3 | I'm talking about chuggers, charity muggers, those bored buggers who pester you into donating |
| 1:47.9 | 20 pounds a month via direct debit, even though only part of what you pay, if any, actually |
| 1:54.4 | goes to the charity. |
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