49 - Wrongful Conviction: Tim Evans & the serial murders at 10 Rillington Place

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🗓️ 1 September 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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A man is hanged for the murder of his child, and presumed to be the his wife's murderer, too. But three years later, in the same house that the couple had lived, more bodies were found. Six More. Including the wife of the man who had been the Crown's star witness against Tim Evans in his murder trial. This is the story of the serial murders of John Reginald Christie at Ten Rillington Place. ********** Head to www.hellofresh.co.uk and enter the code MENSREA at checkout for £60 off! That's £15 off your first four boxes! Find us on Facebook or Twitter! With thanks to our supporters on Patreon! ******* Theme Music: Quinn’s Song: The Dance Begins Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Additional Music: Allemande (Sting) by Wahneta Meixsell. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ “BossaBossa” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Sources: Jonathan Oates, John Christie of Rillington Place (Yorkshire: Wharncliffe True Crime, 2012) Purchase here Ludovic Kennedy, Ten Rillington Place (London, Victor Gollancz 1961) Daniel Brabin, Rillington Place (London: The Statinary Office, 1966) Author Uncredited, “Miscarriages of justice: Timothy Evans” from Innocent.org https://web.archive.org/web/20080906231140/http://www.innocent.org.uk/cases/timothyevans/timothyevans.pdf (Captured on 6 September 2008 by Wayback Machine) Westlake v CCRC [2004] EWHC 2779 Available here: http://netk.net.au/UK/EvansTimothy.asp Francis Gibb, “Rillington Place case reopened” in The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rillington-place-case-reopened-n0x6xc0wn6t?region=ie&t=ie (15 November 2004) “Family of hanged man lose court plea” in The Scotsman https://www.scotsman.com/news/uk-news/family-of-hanged-man-lose-court-plea-1-562350 (17 November 2004) Emma L. Jones and Neil Pemberton, “Ten Rillington Place an the changing politics of abortion in modern day Britain” in Historical Journal (Cambridge) 2014 Dec; 57(4): 1085–1109. available here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4563702/ Neill Prior, “Timothy Evans Family's 60 year conviction wait” from BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/8556721.stm (9 March 2010) Film: 10 Rillington Place (Dir. Richard Fleischer, 1971). Netflix: Rillington Place (Dir. Craig Viveiros 2016) Produced by BBC Wikis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_history_of_the_United_Kingdom_(1945%E2%80%93present)#Post-war_era https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Evans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Christie_(murderer)

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0:00.0	You're listening to the mens rea podcast and this is the story of wrongful
0:06.4	convictions and the serial murders at 10 Rillington Place. Oh, In the
0:45.0	in the 1940s in London, in the wake of the Second World War,
0:51.0	the city was changing.
0:52.0	Much of it had been destroyed during the Blitz bombings, and rationing was still in place. The state welfare system was still in development, and there were huge shortages in housing. There was a lot of
1:05.6	upheaval as men returned from the Western Front and people tried to carry on with
1:10.8	their lives. And so was in this context that in March of 1948, Timothy and
1:17.9	Beryl Evans, a newly wedded couple, moved into their first home together.
1:23.6	They were expecting their first baby and needed more space than they had while they shared
1:28.9	with a number of Barrel's family members.
1:31.7	And so happily they took up residents on the top floor of number 10
1:36.3	Rillington Place in Notting Hill London. The house itself was rickety a three-story end of terrace that was thrown up during a building boom in the 1870s.
1:49.0	Rather than it being inhabited by a family, it lay empty for a number of years before being let out in floors.
1:56.8	It was basically a tenement.
1:59.2	The bottom two floors had three rooms, with the top floor having only two.
2:04.0	There was a small garden in the back which also contained a wash house.
2:09.0	When the Evanses moved in, both of these were used exclusively by the ground floor tenants, the Christies.
2:16.0	There was also a separate room outside which contained a toilet that was shared between the tenants.
2:23.1	So the young couple moved their few belongings to the top floor flat of 10
2:27.4	Rillington Place and struck out on their own.
2:31.5	Timothy was born in South Wales on the 20th of November,
2:35.0	1924.
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