#38 - Justice for Martine Vik Magnussen (Fitzrovia, London, W1)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 9 August 2018
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Justice for Martine Vik Magnussen: On the morning of Sunday 16th March 2008, the body of 23 year old Martine Vik Magnussen was found raped and strangled in the basement of 222 Great Portland Street, London. And although the Police know who her killer is, where he is and can prove he was guilty, he has never been arrested. Why?
- Date: Friday 14th March 2008
- Location: Seaford Court at 22 Great Portland Street, Fitzrovia, London, W1
- Victims: 1 (Martine Vik Magnussen)
- Culprit: Farouk Abdulhak *
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile. |
| 0:09.8 | A true crime podcast, an audio-guided walk, featuring many of London's untold, unsolved, and long-forgotten murders, |
| 0:20.1 | all set within one square mile of the West End. |
| 0:23.6 | Today's episode is about Martin Vic Magnuson, a bright, loving and vivacious student, |
| 0:34.6 | who travelled from Norway to study in London, but was murdered at the hands of a friend. |
| 0:42.4 | And although her brutal death has been solved, more than ten years on, her killer has |
| 0:49.1 | never been brought to justice. |
| 0:53.0 | Murder Mile contains unsettling details, which may make the timid tremble, as well as |
| 0:58.8 | realistic sounds, so that, no matter where you listen to this podcast, you'll feel like |
| 1:05.6 | you're actually there. |
| 1:08.4 | My name is Michael. |
| 1:10.3 | I am your tour guide, and this is Murder Mile. |
| 1:16.2 | Episode 38, Justice for Martin Veek Magnuson. Today, I'm standing outside of Seaford Court at 2-22 Great Portland Street, W1. |
| 1:40.2 | One road west of Gosfield Street, where the West End's most infamous strangler murdered |
| 1:46.6 | his third victim, one street south of Regions Park, where the provisional IRA exploded |
| 1:54.1 | two bombs, killing 11 people and injuring 50, and just a few streets south of Hampstead Road and Gloucestor Crescent, |
| 2:03.6 | where two more possible victims of the Blackout Ripper were murdered, coming soon to murder mile. |
| 2:16.6 | Situated just north of Oxford Circus, |
| 2:20.3 | whereas Soho is the home of every hobo, homo, hipster, ponds, pervert, and deeply desperate extrovert, |
| 2:29.3 | being its bastard little brother, Fitzrovia is little more than a halfway house for those moody, vague, |
| 2:38.2 | ashen-faced assholes who aren't as rich, hip and famous as they think they are. Hence they |
| 2:44.7 | live on a street where every building looks like an accountant. |
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