#60 - Reginald Gordon West: the Birthday Party and the Spent Penny (Chinatown, London, WC2)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2019
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
On Monday 25th April 1966, Reginald Gordon West was murdered by three young men; he had never met them before, he had never seen them before and they had never spoken before. In fact, they had never met. So why and how did they kill him?
- Date: Monday 25th April 1966
- Location: 23 Lisle Street, WC2 (now Beijing Dumpling)
- Victims: 1 (Reginald Gordon West)
- Culprit: Roger Hammond, Robert Alcock and David Hugman
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile, a true crime podcast, an audio-guided walk, featuring many of London's |
| 0:14.1 | untold, unsolved, and long-forgotten murders, all set within London's West End. |
| 0:22.6 | Today's episode is about the senseless death of Reginald Gordon West. |
| 0:28.2 | An innocent man, in the wrong place at the wrong time, for a very innocent reason. |
| 0:35.6 | Oddly, he never saw his killers, he never heard his killers, and stranger |
| 0:41.0 | still, he would never meet his killers. Murder Marley's research used in the original police |
| 0:48.0 | files, it contains moments of satire, shock and grisly details, and as the dramatization of the real events, it may also |
| 0:56.9 | feature loud and realistic sounds, so that no matter where you listen to this podcast, you'll |
| 1:03.2 | feel like you're actually there. |
| 1:06.8 | My name is Michael. I am your tour guide. This is Murder Mile. Episode 60, Reginald Gordon West, |
| 1:18.4 | the birthday party and the spent penny. |
| 1:33.0 | Today, I'm standing on Lyle Street, W.C.2. |
| 1:39.3 | One street east of the Latin Quarter nightclub, where the murder of David Knight led to a mafia hit on Alfredo Zampelle. Two streets south of the Piccadilly Hotel, |
| 1:45.8 | where the first bungled assassination |
| 1:47.6 | on Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko |
| 1:50.5 | irradiated an entire room, |
| 1:53.9 | and a few doors down from the infamous Rosendale murder. |
| 1:58.9 | Coming soon to Murder. |
| 2:01.6 | Lyle Street... Rosendale Murder, coming soon to Murder. |
| 2:09.6 | Lyle Street is a thin pedestrianised road wedged between Shaftesbury Avenue and Leicester Square, with the north side being a mix of oriental eateries, noisy gay bars and discreet brothels, |
| 2:16.6 | and the south side, little more than a featureless wall, be in the back end of such cultural delights as the hippodrome, Warner Cinema and M&M World. |
| 2:30.3 | Rarely bathed in sunlight, Lyle Street is dark and shadowy, |
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