#60 - Reginald Gordon West: the Birthday Party and the Spent Penny
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2019
⏱️ 73 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?
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| 0:00.0 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats. |
| 0:11.0 | So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's. |
| 0:15.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Welcome to Murder Mile. |
| 0:30.0 | A True Crime Podcast, an audio guided walk featuring many of London's |
| 0:37.0 | untold unsolved, unsolved and long forgotten murders all set within London's |
| 0:42.0 | West End. |
| 0:45.0 | Today's episode is about the senseless death of Reginald Gordon West. |
| 0:50.0 | An innocent man, in the wrong place at the wrong time for a very innocent reason |
| 0:57.8 | Oddly he never saw his killers. He never heard his killers and stranger still he would never meet his killers |
| 1:07.8 | Murder-Mile is researched using the original police files. It contains moments of satire, shock and grisly details. |
| 1:15.0 | And as a dramatization of the real events, it may also feature loud and realistic sounds, |
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| 1:26.4 | you're actually there. |
| 1:29.6 | My name is Michael. |
| 1:31.0 | I am your tour guide. This is Murder Mile. |
| 1:35.0 | Episode 60, Original Gordon West, |
| 1:40.0 | The Birthday Party and the Spend to Penny. |
| 1:44.0 | Today I'm standing. |
| 1:47.0 | Today I'm standing on Lyle Street, W.C. 2. 1 Street east of the Latin Quarter Night Club, |
| 1:59.3 | where the merger of David Knight led to a mafia hit on Alfredo Zomparelli, two streets south of the Piccadilly Hotel, |
| 2:08.0 | where the first bungled assassination on Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko |
| 2:13.0 | irradiated an entire room, |
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