#343 - The Blabbermouth - Part 1 of 2 (David McKenzie, Barbara Pinder, Henrietta Osbourne)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
This is Part One of Two.
On the Saturday the 27th of October 1984, 76-year-old widow Barbara Pinder was brutally murdered in her own flat on Prince of Wales Drive in Battersea by an unknown man with a lot of hatred for her. One year later, on Saturday 27th of October 1985, 86-year-old widow Henrietta Osbourne was also stabbed and attacked frenziedly in an attack which had similar hallmarks. It went unsolved for two years… then out of the blue, a petty burglar confessed to both murders. Evidence proved it was him, he confessed, he was convicted. But why did he confess, when he had got away with murder?
- Location (Barbara's): Flat (possibly) 24a, Prince of Wales Mansions, 70-77 Prince of Wales Drive, Battersea, London, SW11, UK,
- Date: Saturday the 27th of October 1984
- Location (Henrietta's): Lumley Flats, Ebury Estate, Passmore Street, Chelsea, SW1
- Date: Saturday 27th of October 1985
- Victims: Barbara Pinder & Henrietta Osbourne,
- Culprit: David McKenzie
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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 |
| 0:22.8 | won't want to miss. |
| 0:24.4 | Search Crossed Wires Festival now and see all three shows with just one ticket. |
| 0:30.9 | Why would a serial killer confess to a sadistic spate of brutal murders? |
| 0:36.6 | Find out on Murder Mile. Today I'm standing on Prince |
| 0:47.0 | of Wales Drive in Battersea SW1. Three streets east of Peter Bryan's failed suicide bid |
| 0:53.6 | having killed Nisha Sheath, |
| 0:55.0 | two streets south of the first of the infamous taxi driver murders, |
| 1:00.0 | and two streets west of the lost fingers of the tortured artist, |
| 1:04.0 | coming soon to murder while. |
| 1:07.0 | Prince of Wales Drive is a very exclusive part of town. |
| 1:13.6 | Consisting of five and six storey, red and white brick mansion blocks stretch into the full length of the road. |
| 1:19.6 | These multi-million pounds service departments have stunning views overlooking Battersea Park in the River Thames, |
| 1:25.6 | being strictly for those with money. |
| 1:30.2 | Access by a secure communal door, this isn't the kind of place where you'd find a fat, |
| 1:35.3 | doll scrounging slop, watching Tari in his pants and scoffing chips from the bag. |
| 1:40.7 | Oh no! As here you'd find, a retunned investment banker, watching down Downton Abbey in his diamond-encrusted G-string, |
| 1:48.0 | as a butler feeds him beer-battered chips made by Gordon Ramsey himself, from a Louis Vuitton bank. |
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