Welcome to Murder Mile, a true crime podcast, an audio-guided walk,

featuring many of London's untold, unsolved, and long-forgotten murders,

all set within one square mile of the West End.

Today's episode is about Marion Lee Smith,

a single mother struggling alone to cope with the daily demands of Derek,

her disabled and brain-damaged son, and as frustrated and exasperated as

Marion would often be, her death would come about, not by exhaustion, but by the hand of her own

son.

Murder Marley's researched using the original police investigation files.

It contains moments of satire, shock and grisly details,

and as a dramatization of the real events, it may also feature loud and realistic sounds,

so that, no matter where you listen to this podcast, you feel like you're actually there.

My name is Michael. I'm your tour guide, and this is Murder Mile.

Episode 43, Marian Lee Smith, the rich mum, the deaf son and the poultry sum.

Today, I'm standing on George Street, W1.

And like most places on Murder Mile, it may sound familiar, because we've already been here before.

As we're just one road south of the first failed assassination of former Iraqi Prime Minister,

Abda Arrazak Saeed Al-naif, one road north of the badly bungled abortion of Helen Mary Pickwood, one square west of

the blackout ripper's first victim, Evelyn Hamilton, and three blocks south of the terrorist

tube bombing at Edgeware Road, coming soon to murder my.

In front of me is Brynston Court at 137 George Street, a seven-story mansion house covering half a square

block with brown brick walls, black wrought iron railings, art deco lamps, and with four huge doric columns in chalkstone on either side of the black wooden door, it looks very much like an old bank.

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