4. Murder in Mayfair: The home front

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

“He’s a coward, he’s not a man.” Martine’s mum passes judgement on Farouk. A final push for answers takes Nawal to Yemen and Norway. And questions of betrayal ring alarm bells in London.

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0:00.0	In 2015, Shemima Begum and her two school friends traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State Group.
0:06.8	Breaking news this morning, three British school girls are reportedly missing.
0:11.1	Shemima Begum was the only one of the girls to emerge from the ashes of the so-called caliphate,
0:17.5	and now she wants to come home.
0:19.6	What do you think people think of you?
0:21.2	How's it getting to her? As a potential risk?
0:23.0	The Shemima Begum story, series two, of I'm Not a Monster.
0:26.9	Find it wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
0:31.7	Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.
0:35.3	I'm Noelle El-Makafi. This is the final episode of Murder and Mephya, The Homefront.
0:43.6	It's finally happening.
0:50.7	I'm heading from London to Yemen, a place beyond the reach of British police.
0:56.1	Home of the fugitive at the centre of the series.
1:07.2	Farouk Abdel-Hak, son of a Yemeni billionaire,
1:11.2	accused of the rape and murder of Martina Vic Magnuson, an Norwegian student in London 15 years ago.
1:18.4	And Lisa, have a fun with Mike Deco back there and our welcome aboard.
1:24.3	It takes almost a day to get to Yemen, and it gives you time to think.
1:36.3	This has to be the strangest, most awkward assignment of my life.
1:40.8	So much is known about this case. It's been written about endlessly,
1:50.7	but no one's ever heard Farouk's story. He's refused to speak with the police,
1:56.4	journalist and Martina's family. But he's not refusing me.
2:03.2	Anytime I see a message from you or anything, it's just so happy.
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