#42 - The Death of David West by David West (Piccadilly, London, SW1)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 6 September 2018
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
On the afternoon of Friday 12th December 2014, in Ormond Yard, a quiet back-street at the back of a garish restaurant called Abracadabra, larger-than-life businessman David West Senior was brutally stabbed to death by his diligent business partner and beloved son – David West Junior. But why?
- Date: Friday 12th December 2014
- Location: 8 Ormond Yard, Piccadilly, London, SW1
- Victims: 1 (David West Snr)
- Culprit: David West Jnr
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile, the True Crime podcast, an audio-guided walk, |
| 0:13.3 | featuring many of London's untold, unsolved and long-forgotten murders, |
| 0:19.6 | all set within one square mile of the West End. |
| 0:25.1 | Today's episode is about David West, two David Wests, in fact, a father and son, with Dave |
| 0:33.8 | Sr. being a self-made millionaire, and Dave Jr. being the future heir to his empire. |
| 0:40.3 | And yet, it wasn't greed which ruined their lives, but a strange and very familiar love. |
| 0:48.3 | Murder Mile contains satire, as well as upsetting details which may make the uneasy go er, as well as |
| 0:57.5 | realistic sounds, so that no matter where you listen to this podcast, you'll feel like you're |
| 1:04.4 | actually there. |
| 1:06.9 | My name is Michael. |
| 1:08.9 | I am your tour guide, and this is Murder Mile. |
| 1:14.7 | Episode 42, The Death of David West by David West. |
| 1:33.3 | Today, I'm standing in Ormond Yard, just off Piccadilly Circus. One road west of St. Alban Street, where Greta Hayward narrowly missed being the next victim of the Blackout Ripper. |
| 1:41.3 | One tube stops south of the murder or suicide site of film star |
| 1:47.0 | and boxing champion Freddie Mills, coming soon to Murder Mile. And oddly, we're back in |
| 1:54.0 | the same street and the same building where the bungling assassins of Russian dissident |
| 1:59.0 | Alexander Litvinenko left traces of highly |
| 2:02.9 | radioactive Polonium 210. |
| 2:09.6 | Situated at the rear of Germyn Street, a haughty little back street famed for its |
| 2:14.8 | pointlessly pretentious art galleries, dusty, musty bookshops, |
| 2:18.9 | expensively bog-standard bistros, and a slew of bespoke tailors, who'll fawn over you if you're |
| 2:25.5 | famous, suck up to you if you're a soap star, with a need to have their lips surgically removed |
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