70. The Cameo Cinema Murders

Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling

BBC

Comedy, True Crime

4.3 • 757 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Laura revisits the shocking case of The Cameo Cinema Murders, a deadly robbery that shook Liverpool in 1949. When a cinema manager and his assistant are shot dead, police rely on the testimony of questionable witnesses to build their case.

But with strong alibis, conflicting accounts, and physical evidence that doesn’t quite fit, doubts begin to mount. What follows is one of the most controversial murder trials in British legal history,

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0:40.1	Hello, welcome to the podcast.
0:41.9	Welcome everyone to the podcast.
0:43.5	Sorry, I didn't want to too loud again.
0:44.8	I did that thing where I tried to start off a little bit.
0:46.6	Hey, hi, guys.
0:47.5	And then you just...
0:48.4	Oh, look, there's a camera on his frozen.
0:51.4	Did you see that?
0:52.2	I'd miss it.
0:52.8	Oh, yeah, you're all like that. There's cameras in here
0:54.7	in a monitor
0:55.1	and it was,
0:55.9	it froze on the exact point
0:57.4	when Ian started talking.
0:59.0	And Laura was doing this face of disgust.
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